Timeline for Why do Android phones have more cores than computers?
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| S Dec 11, 2018 at 3:20 | history | suggested | Hashim Aziz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 11, 2018 at 0:54 | answer | added | Lothar | timeline score: -1 | |
| Sep 19, 2018 at 23:04 | comment | added | David Balažic | See That eight-core smartphone isn’t as fast as you think it is and the linked paper therein. | |
| Jul 11, 2017 at 3:22 | history | edited | iBug | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 14, 2017 at 14:06 | answer | added | Flippy | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 18:43 | comment | added | v6ak | @Daniel Maybe it is there in newer versions, I have 45 ESR. Anyway, this will allow usage of multiple cores for multiple pages (and maybe pages are grouped in processes by domain, I think), not using multiple cores for one page. But maybe even this will come, as experiments with Servo suggest. | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 12:37 | comment | added | user73930 |
Note that FF can make use of multiple cores. Open about:config and check the entry Multiprocess Windows. In my case says 0/1 (Disabled by add-ons) but if I disable the offending add-ons it'll be active.
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| Jun 13, 2017 at 10:26 | answer | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 13, 2017 at 7:02 | answer | added | Paghillect | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 19:59 | comment | added | v6ak | @Abdul It comes mostly from my observations (seeing system load using htop or a similar tool) and partially from my conclusions. Even some taksk where I would expect parallelization (e.g., rendering using OpenScad) are single-core. Firefox (ESR) usually consumes at most one core. Incremental compilation – I haven't measured it, but intuitively, there is not much opportunities for finding independent tasks. (Full compilation is a different case.) | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 18:26 | comment | added | Honinbo Shusaku | "I have recently switched from quadcore to dualcore and I can confirm there is a limited number of usecases for quadcore, even with CPU intensive tasks." - Can you expand and elaborate on how you came to that conclusion? | |
| S Jun 12, 2017 at 18:10 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 14:48 | comment | added | v6ak | @JAB Sure, but I'm not talking about maximum number of cores, rather about typical number. For laptops, more than quadcores are pretty uncommon, but you could find some exception, maybe with Xeon. For mobile phones, even octacores seem to be relatively common. | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 14:22 | comment | added | JAB | Your question is flawed, PCs can have more cores than phones. intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/core/x-series/… And that's not even getting into server-class machines, which can have dozens or even hundreds of cores. (And some supercomputers get into the thousands-of-cores range.) | |
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 8:22 | comment | added | motoDrizzt | As I pointed out in my answer, keep in mind that you seems to be looking at things upside down. Many core/parallel execution is the norm, is not your phone which is an anomaly for having many core, it's the PC CPU which is an anomaly. | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 5:58 | vote | accept | v6ak | ||
| S Jun 12, 2017 at 5:42 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 3:28 | answer | added | Tara Eicher | timeline score: 5 | |
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| Jun 11, 2017 at 18:44 | answer | added | David Schwartz | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jun 11, 2017 at 18:10 | answer | added | motoDrizzt | timeline score: 15 | |
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| Jun 11, 2017 at 12:31 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAndroid/status/873880252778520577 | ||
| Jun 11, 2017 at 10:51 | answer | added | iBug | timeline score: 64 | |
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| Jun 11, 2017 at 9:54 | history | asked | v6ak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |