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sorcerer-mar05/15/20251 replyview on HN

just one more lane bro I swear that's it it's just one more lane then the traffic will go away


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KingMob05/15/2025

Road lanes are like CPU cores. And like CPUs, adding more cores does not linearly scale up traffic capacity.

In the case of CPUs, there's sync and communication overhead; for highways, there's more turbulence and slowdown generated by lane-switching.

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