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[–] faintbeep@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (9 children)

I always think it's unfair to compare things to video games. Video games are so inefficient they had to invent a separate processor with hundreds of cores just to run them. Of course they end up running well.

If cheap phones had a 128-core JavaScript Processing Unit, websites would probably run fast too.

[–] chellomere@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

separate processor with hundreds of cores

Well, graphics rendering is very suited for parallelism. That's why GPUs were invented.

Most other tasks are not. Most of the cores in a 128-core JPU would end up being unused. Also why JPU? It's not like it's significantly different from a normal CPU task.

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 5 points 6 months ago

I don't think the person you replied to actually knows what they're talking about.

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