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I agree with you, but also:

outside of anything else, amdahls law means that as the parallel performance grows, we become _more_ limited by the inherently serial code, and thus single core performance, not less.

Given that single core performance is "harder" (can't just throw more cores/sockets at the problem), it's also critically important.

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