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But that was because we were all using dial up, now the problem is the processing power required to crunch the overly-abstracted CSS/js output of our huge and c
by bananaoomarang 11y ago
But that was because we were all using dial up, now the problem is the processing power required to crunch the overly-abstracted CSS/js output of our huge and complex toolchains.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoIt's not just processing power, it's all the round-trips and timeouts and social buttons delays.
- gopowerranger 11y agoAnd advertising.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoDumb banners or text adverts would be pretty fast, but all that script-loaded, dynamically retargetted, real time bidded crap is pretty slow.
- gopowerranger 11y agoExcept dumb banner and adverts are NOT pretty fast and a frequent cause of the spinner still running long after the page loads.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoMeaning they are not dumb enough.
- gopowerranger 11y agoWithout which we wouldn't need all the processing power and 640K of memory really would be enough.