[Hjelstrom]

In my experience with students, having to deal with integer math limitations and the details of hardware interrupts on the old system was a constant problem. On the cRio, they have gotten by just fine with simple single-threaded code. Also, this depends on the language. For example, multiple parallel tasks seems pretty simple in LabView.

Anyway, I would pick the fast cpu and fast floating point over multi-threading/etc.