[linsomniac]

It is cool to see this level of parallelism coming to commodity hardware. 5-ish years ago a friend of mine had access to an experimental box one of the server vendors had made. Never went to production AFAIK. My memory is that it had 128 cores, 256 threads. One of the things we did on it, of course, was compile the kernel. I don't remember the exact numbers, but recall it being in the single digits number of seconds. This was done with just a ton of Xeon sockets.