What's the point of CPUs with a ridiculous amount of cores?

After a point you'll get into GPU category and those can always outperform them threading-wise

A guy working on some kind of medical picture generator algorithm told me, that at one poijt they were running their programs on the university's supercomputer, but then realised single Titan V can massively outperform it

@Bálint Throw a lot of different jobs on different CPU cores

like oine is handling streaming my video while the other is dealing with the game

@Bálint We need to need all those cores to help some maximize ROI for shareholders.

Thanks @JoshPetrie for removing extraneous comments on my recent answer, including my own which were issued in defense. Things were getting uncivil. I do prefer an answer that doesn't contain a wall of naysayers naysaying without ever understanding the field in question (games), while refusing to discuss the topic privately in chat, so once again, much appreciated.

@ArcaneEngineer I almost commented to ask about the applicability of your answer's performance caveat to languages other than C++. Instead I decided to look into it myself & fell down a rabbit hole made out of JVM byte code & JIT hot spot optimizations.

Hi!

HOLA

Stellaris is good.

Complicated though

:D

Axeboy says "GunHero is really hard"

this is a good thing

I don't play lots of platformers, and GunHero is hard, but the short levels makes it fun.

:)

@doppelgreener hello

o/

How are you doing?

Doing well. :) Having a relaxing Saturday.

All this time, Aliens: Colonial Marines' stupid AI may have been caused by a single typo — PC Gamer

The offending sections are this:

  XtraUtils.Object.addMethod('merge', (function(){
    /**
     * Merges 1 or more objects.
     * @method merge
     * @param {...Object} objects The objects to merge.
     * @returns {Object}
     * @memberof XtraUtils.Object
     * @static
     * @example
     * // returns { a: 1, b: 2 }
     * Object.merge({a:1},{b:2})
     */
    return function merge(...objects) {
      return objects.reduce( (ret, merger) => {
        return Object.assign(ret, merger);
      }, create(null));
    };
  })());

o/

Wat I pasted it in the wrong room