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> The goal should be, and is kind of what Larry Hastings is looking for, is that any program should run 8 times faster on a 8-core CPU compared to a 1-core.

A program that's inherently single-threaded it's unlikely to benefit from more CPUs. When you say "any program" here, you mean "any program with >=8 threads", right?

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I mean the developer (using a highlevel language as Python) ideally should get more performance on an 8-core than on a 1-core CPU.

Erlang, which btw. is older than Python, will perform better the more cores you have due to its message oriented nature. Python (2.7) on the other hand performed worse with multithreading on multicore.

I was hoping that Python would take the same direction in the future, but unfortunately we are getting the async/await mess, instead of a simple async object model (sorry, my pet peeve)

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