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The terrifying result of having ABI compatibility with the first commercially successful system of its kind from the '80s. Granted, they aren't doing themselves any favours with their new straight-jacket style application ABI.
You are trotting out the same tired line without reading the article carefully? ;) This is a regression. The article shows it worked fine up to Windows 7.
When I saw his workstation specs, I thought, thats the exact same one I have at work! Then I checked the bottom, yep, he's at Google too.
I was wondering what ETW is, and found in one of his other posts: ETW (Event Tracing for Windows). He seems to be one of the main contributors of https://github.com/google/UIforETW Seems to be quite useful. --- About the post: tl;dr: NtGdiCloseProcess has a system-wide global lock which is used quite often e.g. during a build of Chrome which spawns a lot of processes. This problem seems to be introduced between Windo…
"Holds" rather than "has", and importantly that system-wide lock must be held by things like SendMessageW (which sends a message and waits for its processing before returning) which is pretty critical for UI updates.
This is compounded by parallelised build processes as not only do they spawn lots of processes leading to lots of process destruction: it both fucks up the UI and completely serialises process destruction so your nice 24 process flights for faster processing end up taking multiple seconds to all shut down, and the more cores (and thus processes) you have the worse it is, and the worse your stutters.
I grew up on the Commodore 64 (1 Core, 1 hyper-thread :-), almost 1 MHz clock freq, almost 64 K usable RAM). The machine was usually pretty responsive, but when I typed too quickly in my word processor it sometimes got stuck and ate a few characters. I used to think: "If computers were only fast enough so I could type without interruption...". If you'd asked me back then for a top ten list what I wished computers cou…
so basically a fork-bomb. I think Linux can still buckle under one, nothing that obscene...
If only Apple would give us more than 16GB of RAM (in a laptop)... what a frustrating world for developers.
I grew up on the Commodore 64 (1 Core, 1 hyper-thread :-), almost 1 MHz clock freq, almost 64 K usable RAM). The machine was usually pretty responsive, but when I typed too quickly in my word processor it sometimes got stuck and ate a few characters. I used to think: "If computers were only fast enough so I could type without interruption...". If you'd asked me back then for a top ten list what I wished computers cou…
I grew up on the Commodore 64 (1 Core, 1 hyper-thread :-), almost 1 MHz clock freq, almost 64 K usable RAM). The machine was usually pretty responsive, but when I typed too quickly in my word processor it sometimes got stuck and ate a few characters. I used to think: "If computers were only fast enough so I could type without interruption...". If you'd asked me back then for a top ten list what I wished computers cou…