Very hard to describe how embarrassing this is for everyone involved in the Web and, sort of, software more generally.https://mobile.twitter.com/Suhail/status/1387063023521595394 …
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow
Displaying 3mb of images and text is a very hard problem. obviously.
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Replying to @sssmcgrath @Jonathan_Blow
I'll never forget a web developer telling me a >30 second load time on an internal tool was expected because "It's loading a lot of data. At least 10MB" My soul left my body at that precise moment
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10mb of what 10mb of text would take a century to parse and render even on new hardware same if its 5,000 ~200 byte files, unless you have one of those new intel SSD techs I forget the name of?
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Replying to @Weasul14 @jon_valdes and
idk man why does notepad take centuries to load large text files then and why does windows take longer to transfer 5000 files than it does 5 if the total size is the same why did intel develop technology specifically targeting the latter
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Your points are tangential to the issue First one just means notepad is an example of software that doesn't handle big files well
Second, yes, there's overhead to copying individual files as the filesystem B-tree has to be updated. But this tool just was just reading ~5 files1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
I wrote a tool a while back that parsed about 1gb of JSON/sec spread out over 110k files. The biggest overhead by far is the syscall... which io_uring and DirectStorage should alleviate.
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Ugh dude, my apologies.
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