[gridlockd]

> The problem is a lot of tasks that people want their CPU to be fast at is exactly stuff that parallelizes almost embarrassingly well. Compiling code, video rendering, compressing files.

Compiling code isn't embarrassingly parallel unless you're building some project with lots of files from scratch. Video rendering and compression also don't benefit as well as you may think:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3900x-39...

Meanwhile, single-threaded performance affects pretty much 100% of what you do.

In the end, I don't think there's a big difference either way.