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by ocornut 2051 days ago
The vast irony of all this is that today interacting/scrolling in Facebook or Twitter is vastly less efficient that a basic graphic app rendering at 60 FPS. Facebook has become _ACTUALLY_ slow to interact with even from a human point of view.
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This is a very common problem on modern machines and modern software. Engineers default to putting in so much machination of caches and dirty-flags to avoid redundant processing that they end up making something that does way more work to avoid work than a decent implementation of just blindly doing the work all-gas-no-brakes.