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Comment Simple Fix (Score 2) 1

Just use siezed heroin for the executions. The police obtain more than enough of it every day, and people willingly shoot up with it so "cruel and unusual punishment" grounds can't really fly, and it has the propaganda value of saying "see, this stuff will kill you".
 

Comment Re:cut the rug (Score 2) 526

Sure, since grass cutting is an entirely parallelizeable problem and the cutting of each blade isn't dependent on any other blade. Now, let's assume that you have 16 lawns to cut. Would it be faster to make one monster 8-wide mower that can cut each in three passes then move to the next lawn, or would it be faster to send one mower to each and cut them each in parallel with 24-passes? Remember, there is overhead involved in the move from one lawn to the next.

More cores only helps when you are solving a problem that doesn't have any non-parallel parts to it. Multitasking different programs fits that description reasonably well (except for contention for a system resource, that is). Crunching a graphic can fit if the algorithm doesn't have any feedback in it.

Otherwise, cores will be waiting for something to do and you would be better off with fewer that are individually faster.

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