Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likely due to memory leak

Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by fdroidmstrrce on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:16AM (#27232635)

Doubt.

CPU hasn't been the limiting hardware in a decade. I think Intel stagnated because people have prioritized spending money on GPUs, memory, and SSDs.

Even when I'm writing an intensive program, I'm using multiple cores, so a single threaded benefit is useless to me.

I have a half a mind to think the m1 is a marketing gimmick because making a better processor was low hanging fruit that CPU companies aren't trying to compete on(outside of price).

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by hansel_der on Saturday May 22, 2021 @05:18AM (#27244907)

> Even when I'm writing an intensive program, I'm using multiple cores, so a single threaded benefit is useless to me.

maybe poorly worded but i would like to point out that a single-thred performance gain is never useless, not even with a highly a parallel workload.

i would think that due to multi-stage cpu caches and ipc overhead, something within one core/thread will be way more efficient.

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