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by derefr 1163 days ago
Ah, but most of the slowdown from this messiness is due to all these mode changes being handled at the application layer in sandboxed userland daemons on a non-real-time OS. Before smart TVs with application processors “fast enough” to (barely, slowly) do these things, the “control-plane logic” for a TV’s DSPs was handled effectively instantly by purpose-designed ASICs.