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by Turing_Machine 1164 days ago
I have an M2 with lots-o-RAM. Not everything needs to be "performant".

I'm old enough to remember the same arguments being made when people started using C rather than ASM.

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> Not everything needs to be "performant".

With that attitude you get Microsoft officially advertising their new Teams version that takes 9 seconds to show less than 1kb of text (3 seconds just to show the splashscreen).

Yes, we are running what essentially amounts to supercomputers. Why is it then that Slack still requires 20% CPU to show an animated emoji? Or that Matrix spikes to 60% CPU when scrolling through a largely empty channel? Or...