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Re:Modern software performance is firmly in its “beyond paro... by NovaDudely on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @01:51AM (#35353152)
Reminds me of how GTA Online was crawling on initial load because a single thread was parsing a 10MB JSON file.

Maybe modern software is like that. Just a hundred small inefficiencies that don't look like much when benchmarked on an individual part of the stack but combine into a monster.

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Re:Modern software performance is firmly in its “beyond paro... by muhehe on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:59AM (#35354899)
It was about 25mb, but that would be still nothing for current computers. The problem was it was done by custom-made super inefficient parser.
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