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Since screen resolutions have scaled far more slowly than memory sizes in the last couple of decades, surely it makes even more sense to cache font rendering no
by joosters 11y ago
Since screen resolutions have scaled far more slowly than memory sizes in the last couple of decades, surely it makes even more sense to cache font rendering nowdays? If we both agree that it was a win for low resolutions (say 640x480), back when a computer might have 2MB of RAM, surely it's far less of a cost now that we have 4k displays (only a few factors bigger) and well over 1000x the amount of memory.
Just about everything in computing is a form of caching. It's rarely stupid, so throwing it out is short-sighted.