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On Wednesday, 15 February 2017 at 17:53:43 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> Typo: I mean't that one cannot assume that Apple hardware has 
> more than 2 cores (so one has to write applications that 
> perform well with only 2 cores).

You're missing what I consider to be 'the Big Picture', namely 
that Swift will become popular on non-Apple platforms, and it 
needs to be fairly capable to compete with Go, Java, and C++, and 
others. IBM is already backing server side Swift to some degree.