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by jupp0r 976 days ago
https://blog.erratasec.com/2013/02/multi-core-scaling-its-no...

Maybe you should just take a college computer architecture course along the lines of Hennessy/Patterson. This is nothing new, I learned much of this in college 15 years ago. The problem has only gotten worse since then, computers have not become more single threaded.

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my reading is that graphs in that post are just fantasized by author to demonstrate his idea and not backed by any benchmarks or measurements, at least I don't see any links on code in article and no mentions what logic he actually tried to run, how many threads/connections he spawned.

> The problem has only gotten worse since then, computers have not become more single threaded.

Computers are now can handle 10k blocking connections with ease.