[posterboy]

> in most games you can build additional factories

You can't just buy addition execution units? Sure there are limiting factors - in games as well.

[yorwba]

Which scheduler automatically inserts instructions to add more ALUs to its CPU? ;)

[posterboy]

Well, I did take a step back from the instruction pipeline analogy, but it's still covered by operations research and mathematical optimization.

The cost of waking a sleeping CPU core is perhaps comparable to the cost of building a factory in-game. Whereas, building a ton of factories that can't be saturated by the incoming cash money is comparable to building a superscalar processor architecture that can't be saturated by the cache memory.