[hansel_der]

> Even when I'm writing an intensive program, I'm using multiple cores, so a single threaded benefit is useless to me.

maybe poorly worded but i would like to point out that a single-thred performance gain is never useless, not even with a highly a parallel workload.

i would think that due to multi-stage cpu caches and ipc overhead, something within one core/thread will be way more efficient.