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by pansa2 636 days ago
Did this attempt manage to preserve single-threaded performance, or was the requirement dropped?
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He folded.

The patches dropped some unrelated dead weight such that the effect is not as bad.

The effect is still 20-50% slowdown for single thread, even with the purported unrelated speedups to make the feature more palatable.

That is absolutely in the range of previous attempts, which were rejected! The difference here is that its goes in now to gratify Facebook.

Facebook or Microsoft?