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On 28 Jun 2018, at 17:02, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>=20
> But when you are doing real work, sorting
> the genome, machine learning, whatever, performance is a thing and
> lots of wimpy cpus are not.

But lots of (relatively) wimpy CPUs is what physics says you will have and y=
ou really can't argue with physics.

I think this is definitely off-topic now so I won't reply further: feel free=
 to mail me privately.=