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Cores scale linearly while programmers don't.

It does not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_J._Gunther#Universal_Law_o... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

Not only it does not but sometimes it doesn't scale at all. Scaling software is a very difficult problem, especially when you have low latency issues.

And what happens when you write desktop software? You ask your customers to open Amazon accounts?

So I set the guideline at 1000 cores. Do not make performance-productivity tradeoffs below that.

In which field do you work?



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