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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by krageon on Monday January 04, 2021 @06:39AM (#25630062)
It's fair because they're both GUIs. It shouldn't have to be anyone's problem that a set of developers chose to pack a whole browser inside of their user interface.
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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by bmm6o on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:18PM (#25634492)
If the question is about comparing the performance of immediate mode and retained mode, the comparison should be between two otherwise-similar applications. There are a lot of applications that are faster than Spotify, but that says more about Spotify than about those applications.
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