The most depressing hallmark of computing backslide is visible repaint. I remember when computers got fast enough that you no longer saw intermediate draw results. Then, browsers happened, and web apps, and now all you see, all day, every day, is stutter and repaint.
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For reference, on an M1 Mac, which has extraordinarily fast everything, the time between clicking on an icon and seeing a complete, running application should only be visible using a high-speed camera. But we are nowhere near that. You can _watch_ these things grind to a start.
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And as my recent tweet stream about 100ms 1gb page provisioning on Windows points out, even if you are an excellent software developer who does a great job writing your program, the OS will probably intervene and make your startup time slow despite your best efforts :(
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It looks to me like each app is drawing the most current state it has very quickly, and then the async data requests are all coming back slow. Probably because it's all network requests?
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At least to me, it looked like both. There are several cases of things just popping in that don't look like network things, but then there are things that might be network things, but it doesn't matter either way.
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The entire state of computer performance in general seems to be a case of Stockholm syndrome ;) I'm pleased that my small Unity projects build in like 10-15 seconds off an m.2 SSD and quad core with 32g ram. That's just broken ;)
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This reminded me of an old tongue-in-cheek comparison video between Windows Vista on an Athlon XP vs OpenGEM on a 8088 i found several years ago -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBJQgMJ7l4g …
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Modern system on that Athlon would grind to halt. i.e. Raspberry Pi is probably several times faster CPU but it is impossibly slow and unusable as a daily driver.
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You know what's weirdly sad? Just found this website imitating the mac OS system and it seems snappier than the real thing :D https://portfolio.zxh.io/
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On the other hand, people _are_ excited about speed. Even after decades long conditioning by slow software. And suchs videos don't even leave usual excuses for industry "muh, look, nobody is asking for faster speeds". Surely, nobody is asking but they _will_ be impressed and glad
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After reading this tweet I proceeded to open Slack in a browser tab. It loaded its UI in batches, flickering, took 3-4 seconds, done. And then it wiped everything clean and reloaded itself completely. Happens few times a week (update's detected after load?) and it's really weird.
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