24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by tomc1985 on Friday August 17, 2018 @02:03AM (#17780601)

Didn't BeOS get this right?

I too wonder why UI threads are still so obnoxiously tied to... everything else. Put UI in the fast lane! (At least until some bug tries to make a bajillion calls a second)

Then I remembered how much more complicated it is to write proper multithreaded GUI code :P

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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by rangibaby on Friday August 17, 2018 @02:34AM (#17780716)

I remember Safari in the iPhone 3G would ALWAYS scroll even if it meant showing a checkerboard pattern while the page rendering caught up.

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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by tomc1985 on Friday August 17, 2018 @02:38AM (#17780730)

Safari did that for a while too

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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by speedplane on Friday August 17, 2018 @02:56AM (#17780814)

I remember old Mac OS 9. If you started a print job, and held down the mouse holding down a click, the printer would just stop. The entire system wasn't properly multi-threaded.

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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by dasmoth on Friday August 17, 2018 @03:53AM (#17781040)

That’s something that I remember people in my circle joking about at the time, but in retrospect maybe the joke was on us. User input should always be absolute top priority, and if that means something else has to stop then so be it.

(Although with 24 cores...)

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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by speedplane on Saturday August 18, 2018 @12:54AM (#17786939)

To your point, I also remember working with early windows systems and when the network went down for a moment, the mouse and screen would freeze. Given the two options, Most would probably take the Mac.

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