Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday
by einpoklum on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @02:52PM
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> Pentium 4
Not such a good choice. It was kind of a "strung out" processor, with an overly deep pipeline, plus there was that RDRAM business...
I'd say maybe an Intel Pentium III coppermine, or maybe go AMD and choose the original Athlon.
> I only say this half-seriously
Why just half-seriously? Make it totally serious.
> If it's unusable, go back and optimize some more.
That too, but even more than that: Go back and make more initialization lazy; make sure your UI isn't overly de-prioritized in favor of other work; and make sure you have logic and UI for when certain thing take time, allowing them to still carry out some activity while waiting.
Not such a good choice. It was kind of a "strung out" processor, with an overly deep pipeline, plus there was that RDRAM business...
I'd say maybe an Intel Pentium III coppermine, or maybe go AMD and choose the original Athlon.
> I only say this half-seriously
Why just half-seriously? Make it totally serious.
> If it's unusable, go back and optimize some more.
That too, but even more than that: Go back and make more initialization lazy; make sure your UI isn't overly de-prioritized in favor of other work; and make sure you have logic and UI for when certain thing take time, allowing them to still carry out some activity while waiting.