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officialchickentoday at 10:06 AM1 replyview on HN

Totally agree; we're approaching a time where a single processor has hundreds of threads - it's a conceptual limitation of the author's preferred language that was never considered due to it's ancient 75-ish year old design. "Use the right tool for the job" has never been more important, versus "I have a hammer, everything is a nail"


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zrmtoday at 11:30 AM

> we're approaching a time where a single processor has hundreds of threads

Approaching? EPYC 9996 has 512 threads. EPYC 9754 had 256 threads three years ago.