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by cozzyd 2249 days ago
Sure but the same is true about performance in general.
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That's not really true. Single-threaded scalar performance is still super important for the everyday responsiveness of laptop/desktop systems. Especially for applications like web browsing which run JavaScript.
Your UI is slow because of IO and RAM and O(n^2) code, not CPU. Look at your activity monitor.