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Big deal. That's literally why you've got 3 more cores.

With that logic, you can never run more than 4 applications at once. The point is that for what it does, it shouldn't even be close to utilizing a full CPU core on a modern machine.

Well, for that matter, for what it does, it shouldn't even exist.

Huge deal not everyone is running 4 cores.

Core i5 first generation came out in 2009 with 4 cores: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i5_processo...

Even with the 3 extra cores for most laptops it means thermal (or power) throttle and likely high memory and cache pressure.

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