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by rbanffy 2061 days ago
My concern is that almost anything that fits in a C64 will run out of the L1 cache in most modern CPUs and yield very unrealistic results compared to reasonable modern workloads.
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I think that's a valid result in its own way, though. It's not the poor C64's fault that we insist on chewing through megabytes and gigabytes just to run a chat app.
> It's not the poor C64's fault that we insist on chewing through megabytes and gigabytes just to run a chat app.

"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."