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Re:Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video] by noir_lord on Monday June 14, 2021 @06:25AM (#27501019)
The problem is that the extreme effort to optimise hardware pays off for everyone, the extreme effort to optimise "random software project" rarely does (unless random software project is a compiler/kernel of course).

So the RoI is just different.

Re:Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video] by neolog on Monday June 14, 2021 @07:46AM (#27501456)
Browsers too
Re:Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video] by funcDropShadow on Monday June 14, 2021 @10:01AM (#27502607)
And they contain a compiler and almost an operating system ;-)
Re:Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video] by noir_lord on Monday June 14, 2021 @09:02AM (#27502016)
Indeed, browsers are a good example of ubiquitous software.