> The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed
I can understand having a bug like that, but unnoticed for 15 years? more than 8 cores was rare 15 years ago, and as a percentage of chips sold is still rare, but presumably people with threadrippers ran benchmarks? optimized? etc? just doesn't seem possible
I can understand having a bug like that, but unnoticed for 15 years? more than 8 cores was rare 15 years ago, and as a percentage of chips sold is still rare, but presumably people with threadrippers ran benchmarks? optimized? etc? just doesn't seem possible