> The Switch performance Nintendo consoles aren't exactly targeting the high performance games. What they are targeting with extreme prejudice are people using

> The Switch performance Nintendo consoles aren't exactly targeting the high performance games. What they are targeting with extreme prejudice are people using their hardware in ways they did not bless, the need to lock down the console probably supersedes everything else. > userspace drivers like DPDK Which drops all processing in the userland because the large amount of system calls necessary for traditional network operations is too damn slow. Newer kernel APIs like io_uring are trying to address some of that. > Project Treble (userspace drivers with Android IPC) I have an eight core android phone, I do not understand why I need eight cores to run a phone but apparently performance did not hit rock bottom back when feature phones ran on a Java based system. Everything you mention screams horribly bad performance to me.