Multithreading Be Like

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Multithreading Be Like

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The CPU is making you an offer you can't refuse, mafia-style. It demands 32x more computational resources to give you a measly 1.7x speed boost in return. This is the classic multithreading paradox - throwing massive parallelism at a problem only to get diminishing returns because some tasks just don't scale linearly. It's like hiring 32 people to dig a hole when only 2 can fit in the space. The rest just stand around drinking coffee and collecting paychecks.

The purple lighting really sets the mood for this computational extortion. Your CPU is basically saying "Nice application you got there... would be a shame if something happened to its performance."

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