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Couldn't you make the same argument about being able to perform computation on the CPU?
by TurningCanadian 5y ago
Couldn't you make the same argument about being able to perform computation on the CPU?
- shadowgovt 5y agoYou definitely could (and, indeed, I can imagine beneficial use cases for a "renice" feature in a browser like Chrome with its Task Manager). But there's less of a significant need for it. Main CPU performance is too poor on hashing datasets to much benefit from salami-slicing user CPU at scale. That trick is much likelier to get you a solved block in the blockchain if you can tap user GPUs on a couple million users.
- account42 5y agoYes, hence why extensions like NoScript and uMatrix exist(ed).