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A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop
Imagine you wrote a program for a pleasingly parallel problem, where each thread does its own independent piece of work, and the threads don’t need to coordi...
- Points
- 617
- HN comments
- 358
- Submissions
- 2
- Cited by
- 4 commenters
Systems & PerformanceSoftware Engineering2021
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2021 | A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop by Ygg2 | 617 | 195 |
| Jun 18, 2023 | A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop (2021) by xk3 | 526 | 163 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 4 different people, from Dec 2021 to Apr 2025.
Most recent:
- delifue · Apr 30, 2025
- nyanpasu64 · Nov 11, 2022
- bitcoinmaxima · Dec 31, 2021
- acqbu · Dec 31, 2021
