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Not only that but due to an existing bug/oversight in Windows, you can actually freeze your mouse pointer with a machine... even with 24 cores sitting idle. (G
by katastic 9y ago
Not only that but due to an existing bug/oversight in Windows, you can actually freeze your mouse pointer with a machine... even with 24 cores sitting idle.
(Great read.)
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and-i-cant-move-my-mouse/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and...
We have gigantic, steamrolling, bullet train machines capable of going nearly infinite miles-per-hour. And everyone's "design" solution... is to add their own stops along the way so the train has to come to a complete stop, [un]load some passengers and start chugging along again. And surprise surprise, a gigantic train takes awhile to accelerate back up to speed.
We've built faster and faster trains, but filled them with so many stops along the way that it's sometimes faster to take the bus.
- digi_owl 9y agoSimilarly, with Gnome on top of Wayland the mouse is hitched to the main refresh loop...
- katastic 9y agoHoly crap. That seems like such an oversight for something so crucial.
- gugagore 9y agoI enjoy that this applies pretty directly (almost aesthetically) to deeply-pipelined CPU architectures. Though for general computing, I am pretty sure it's still a win.