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Heck, even my 6 year old spare desktop can transcode highdef video on the fly. That used to be the stuff of dreams. I think the implications are clear, it's ti
by bane 11y ago
Heck, even my 6 year old spare desktop can transcode highdef video on the fly. That used to be the stuff of dreams.
I think the implications are clear, it's time for software developers to start thinking about performance if their work is slow, you can't just expect consumers to go out and throw more hardware at it.
- agumonkey 11y agoYep, everythins is amazing yet nobody's happy. Things are messy nowadays (web, native, crossplatform, gpgpu, opencl) and people can't apply their brain to performance as it was in the old days when there was simply no other choice. I bet in a few years a lot of cruft will vanish. OpenGL removed a big part of it for clarity. The web and native will gather (see how dynamic languages are jit compiled, and take low level into account). Hopefully overall efficiency will improve, for builders and customers.
- SG- 11y agoPeople's happiness have started to shift with size and battery. People are willing to even get something a bit slower now if it means half the size (new MacBook, MacBook Air and other small laptops based on Intel's Core M Broadwell).
- agumonkey 11y agoI have yet to use a laptop not from before 2009. I fail to see how even Core M are significantly slower.