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> but the premise that "web is slow" has been disproven so many times already. No it is not. Though it seems proven that even with very powerful hardware users
by geodel 3y ago
> but the premise that "web is slow" has been disproven so many times already.
No it is not. Though it seems proven that even with very powerful hardware users in general have been pushed to minimal expectations. So GUIs that take seconds to start or respond on multi Ghz processors and multi GB RAMs are considered fast now.
This argument is web GUI is fast is more of "It's been proven multiple times meal kits are cheaper than buying groceries from store". Yeah, someone can find really cheap meal kits if they spend many hours on hunting a deal. But in general case grocery in store is plain cheaper for most of reasonable shoppers.
- text0404 3y agoyou're still arguing about the usage of modern web technology, not its actual performance. > No it is not. Though it seems proven that even with very powerful hardware users in general have been pushed to minimal expectations. So GUIs that take seconds to start or respond on multi Ghz processors and multi GB RAMs are considered fast now. ok, so php is slow now? statically rendered sites have somehow become larger than they used to be? the web is fast. just because some developers don't know how to leverage it properly doesn't make it less fast.
- jupp0r 3y agoDefine fast. Do you care about frame rates? input latency? startup times? memory usage? There are trade offs, but if you care about high frame rates and low input latency, web apps can totally deliver that. Look at https://lighttracer.org/app.html https://lighttracer.org/app.html, for example.
- zigzag312 3y agoI tried that app expecting responsive app, but the viewport lags significantly, and when rendering, the whole UI lags.
- jcelerier 3y agoI tried opening the link and did not even have the patience to wait until "compiling shaders" was done. When I saw the buttons slowly coming up one at a time I literally laughed. Is this supposed to be a remotely good example?
- jupp0r 3y agoI don't know, it was something that I randomly picked that was really performant on my phone. YMMV.