My 16mhz 68000 based Amiga 500 had smoother mouse movement than my 3.2ghz 8 core desktop.
24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
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#252Full disclosure: I work for Google on Chrome. A Chrome build is truly a computational load to be reckoned with. Without the distributed build, a from-scratch build of Chrome will take at least 30 minutes on a Macbook Pro--maybe an hour(!). TBH I don't remember toughing out a full build without resorting to goma. Even on a hefty workstation, a full build is a go-for-lunch kind of interruption. It will absolutely own a…
It'd be crazy to think about the energy spent over time on building just chrome - turn that into a carbon footprint and itd be shocking! I always try to write code for humans and not over-engineer or prematurely optimize code, but sometimes I wonder about a section of code over the long term - that bit of javascript thats going to be run on lots of phones and other devices over years or decades - and how much electricity its going to cost more just because I used `map` instead of a `for` loop... I can't imagine working with a build process that takes that long to run.
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
#253Full disclosure: I work for Google on Chrome. A Chrome build is truly a computational load to be reckoned with. Without the distributed build, a from-scratch build of Chrome will take at least 30 minutes on a Macbook Pro--maybe an hour(!). TBH I don't remember toughing out a full build without resorting to goma. Even on a hefty workstation, a full build is a go-for-lunch kind of interruption. It will absolutely own a…
> How did we get here? Well, C++ and its stupid O(n^2) compilation complexity [...]
Wasn't large compilation time a driving force behind coming up with Go? Is a garbage-collected language not suitable for a web browser? I am just curious because I absolutely love writing Go
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
#254My 16mhz 68000 based Amiga 500 had smoother mouse movement than my 3.2ghz 8 core desktop.
IIRC, on the Amigas the CPU was barely involved in the process of reading the mouse events and moving the cursor sprite on the screen.
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#255There's too many spinning wheels. Stop it! People are going to just stop using the internet. If I could, I would. But I can't. So please just build simple websites!
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#256Try running Carthage update for an iOS app with 80 frameworks. Ever seen a Mac hit 55GB of ram? MacOS kills it. It takes many of these runs, and all this does is fetch prebuilt binaries. Yes, everything I said here is beyond stupid.
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#257Saw the headline and thought "must be Windows". I'm not a Windows hater, but one of my long standing gripes about Windows is that it just seems to have terrible multitasking compared to OSX. I'm sure there are reasons but it just seems utterly symbolic of Microsoft that they never managed to get Windows to multitask in a rock solid, smooth and reliable way like OSX.
It seems to have improved these past years but beach balls used to be comically widespread on OS X. I'm not at all convinced OS X is in any better shape than Windows. And OS X certainly doesn't have anywhere near all the kick ass monitoring tools that Windows as, such as the ones shown in this article.
> And OS X certainly doesn't have anywhere near all the kick ass monitoring tools that Windows as, such as the ones shown in this article
It certainly helps that Intel really likes Windows, but I haven't seen Mac users complaining as much as Windows users do, so, it may be for lack of demand (and the bundling of dtrace, for ages).
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#258Why the OS don't prioritize UI threads on one or two cores?
How does it know which threads are UI threads?
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#259Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
#260I had the same exact problem. A machine that is overkill spec wise but the mouse and keyboard would freeze up every minute on the minute. I tracked it down to my desktop wallpaper being on a rotation. Seriously... how bad does that have to be implemented in Windows to actually hang the mouse and keyboard?
For all the hate Windows gets, UI lockup hasn't really been a pervasive issue for me in years, whereas on my Linux desktop that's just a typical day.
My Linux desktop never locks up. I'd suggest messing around with a different kernel, double checking graphic drivers, etc.