Re:I will never need to buy a new computer again
by Barrin92 on Sunday January 12, 2025 @12:55PM
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>Heβs forgetting that software keeps getting slower
I mean, depends on what software you use. There's a pretty sizeable and growing ecosystem of people who put a lot of thought into performance. Just look at tooling like ripgrep, some of the newer terminals people have been working on, recently I came across a pretty nice neovim plugin where someone had written their own custom SIMD fuzzy string matcher (https://github.com/saghen/frizbee). There's some pretty admirable effort people put into performance these days.
I think speed of your setup is mostly limited by how willing you are to look for better alternatives.
I mean, depends on what software you use. There's a pretty sizeable and growing ecosystem of people who put a lot of thought into performance. Just look at tooling like ripgrep, some of the newer terminals people have been working on, recently I came across a pretty nice neovim plugin where someone had written their own custom SIMD fuzzy string matcher (https://github.com/saghen/frizbee). There's some pretty admirable effort people put into performance these days.
I think speed of your setup is mostly limited by how willing you are to look for better alternatives.