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Not just that, for many, many applications these days, latency and predictability are more important than throughput.

And throughput is actually easier (see: Latency Lags Bandwidth). So we're often/usually getting help with the less important problem that's easier to solve, while at the same time making the more important and harder problems more difficult.

YMMV.



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