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Symmetry on Aug 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Macintel: The End Is Nigh

I was looking at the single threaded numbers because those are usually more relevant to what you would be doing on most Macbooks.

eliasv on Aug 4, 2014 [–]

Citation needed.

morenoh149 on Aug 5, 2014 | [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law perhaps. Single threaded speed is most relevant to software because it's difficult to make it take advantage of multiple cores.

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