Quote of the week

[Posted October 16, 2013 by corbet]

Single core systems are becoming a historic curiosity, we should justify every piece of extra complexity we add for them.

Posted Oct 17, 2013 21:21 UTC (Thu) by jackb (guest, #41909) [Link]

Really? All the VMs I create and use are single cpu/core because overcomitting CPUs can be problematic.

Posted Oct 17, 2013 21:43 UTC (Thu) by bracher (subscriber, #4039) [Link]

hobby and prototyping boards are often single-core as well. my raspberry pi and beagle bone black both report a single cpu in /proc/cpuinfo,,,

Posted Oct 24, 2013 17:13 UTC (Thu) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]

The rest of the quoted mail gives additional context that might make the dissenters happier.