Comment Re:parallelism is a bit overrated (Score 2, Informative) 226
Stop thinking in terms of single applications. All machines (SMP and Uni) run LOTS of processes. More CPU's means more things can run simultaneously.
BTW, even for single applications, multi-threading is tricky, but not THAT hard. Any second year CompSci student can do that.
BTW, even for single applications, multi-threading is tricky, but not THAT hard. Any second year CompSci student can do that.
