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by CyberDildonics 984 days ago
If a CPU is being cooled enough to not throttle, it is much more time and energy efficient to use all the cores you can rather than have another core run at a slightly higher frequency.

Higher frequencies have diminishing returns and exponential heat loss.

You might as well work-steal across machines at that point

Shared memory is extremely fast, it crushes using local loopback networking, let alone using actual networking.