Re:The computers are fast, but you don't know it
by jansommer on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:24PM
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Win32 is so really, really fast. And with Tiny C Compiler the program compiles and boots faster than the Win10 calculator app takes to start.
Re:The computers are fast, but you don't know it
by pjvsvsrtrxc on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:36PM
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Linux windows get just as many (run xev from a terminal and do the same thing). Our modern processors, even the crappiest Atoms and ARMs, are actually really, really fast.
Re:The computers are fast, but you don't know it
by dragontamer on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:39PM
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GPUs even faster.
Vega64 can explore the entire 32-bit space roughly 1-thousand times per second. (4096 shaders, each handling a 32-bit number per clock tick, albeit requiring 16384 threads to actually utilize all those shaders due to how the hardware works, at 1200 MHz)
One of my toy programs was brute forcing all 32-bit constants looking for the maximum amount of "bit-avalanche" in my home-brew random number generators. It only takes a couple of seconds to run on the GPU, despite exhaustive searching and calculating the RNG across every possible 32-bit number and running statistics on the results.
Its hilarious how quickly things work these days if you just used the 90s-era APIs.
Its also fun to play with ControlSpy++ and see the dozens, maybe hundreds, of messages that your Win32 windows receive, and imagine all the function calls that occur in a short period of time (ie: moving your mouse cursor over a button and moving it around a bit).