<story><title>Linus: Parallel computing is a huge waste of everybody&apos;s time</title><url>http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=146066&amp;curpostid=146227</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VMG</author><text>Heavily editorialized title. Actual quote:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Parallel stupid small cores without caches are horrible unless you have a very specific load that is hugely regular (ie graphics).&lt;p&gt;And&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The only place where parallelism matters is in graphics or on the server side, where we already largely have it. Pushing it anywhere else is just pointless.&lt;p&gt;Edit: &amp;quot;editorialized&amp;quot; meaning &amp;quot;choosing the most extreme quote of a rant&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ezequiel-garzon</author><text>As zurn pointed out, it&amp;#x27;s not taken out of context at all. Right before your excerpt comes:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The whole &amp;quot;let&amp;#x27;s parallelize&amp;quot; thing is a huge waste of everybody&amp;#x27;s time. There&amp;#x27;s this huge body of &amp;quot;knowledge&amp;quot; that parallel is somehow more efficient, and that whole huge body is pure and utter garbage.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Linus: Parallel computing is a huge waste of everybody&apos;s time</title><url>http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=146066&amp;curpostid=146227</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VMG</author><text>Heavily editorialized title. Actual quote:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Parallel stupid small cores without caches are horrible unless you have a very specific load that is hugely regular (ie graphics).&lt;p&gt;And&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The only place where parallelism matters is in graphics or on the server side, where we already largely have it. Pushing it anywhere else is just pointless.&lt;p&gt;Edit: &amp;quot;editorialized&amp;quot; meaning &amp;quot;choosing the most extreme quote of a rant&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zurn</author><text>Actual quotes:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The whole &amp;quot;let&amp;#x27;s parallelize&amp;quot; thing is a huge waste of everybody&amp;#x27;s time.&lt;p&gt;And&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Give it up. The whole &amp;quot;parallel computing is the future&amp;quot; is a bunch of crock.</text></comment>