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Re:Is it time for open processors? by tjoff on Friday January 19, 2018 @06:40AM (#16185492)
Good enough relative to the competition perhaps.

Nowadays the CPU is the bottle-neck even when surfing the web and using simple (electron) text editors.

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Re:Is it time for open processors? by mpweiher on Friday January 19, 2018 @11:47AM (#16187604)
But that's not really a CPU problem but a software problem. And faster CPUs won't fix it, due to Wirth's Law.
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Re:Is it time for open processors? by pjmlp on Saturday January 20, 2018 @04:41AM (#16192769)
Anything built with Electron is the anathema of simple.
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