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Then "Skynet" should be removed from the description, as well as Actors. I guess the word "whatever" deserves to stay though.

Summing a bunch of numbers is a silly task anyways

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In the end, isn't that all we're really doing?

This has no external data so workers may avoid a cache fetch let alone having enough data for regular cache misses. Even a simple strlen call in each worker could begin to add the kind of issues that affect meaningful performance.

How a language handles misses/blocking/threading is more important than what it can do in a perfect cpu only world.

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