[Techtalk] more cores, more slows

[Eeva Järvinen]

Facecrack is slow as molasses, no matter what you run it on. It's slow
on my phone, it's slow on my laptop. Which happens to have four cores;
i7. You'd think it'd be fast - and it is. Running softsynths? No prob.
Sequencing at the same time, LADSPA effects, the lot? In real time,
with jackd? Sure. It just doesn't apply to web browsing. I think this
is due more to bad javascript than to anything else, plus inevitable
i/o lagging. I think we're all doomed to be disappointed; no matter
how much processor power we throw at the web, it swallows it all,
burps and then cries for more. Oh, and my home cnx is 110Mbps, so it's
probably not that, either. You'd think you could get a few MBs worth
of webpage in less than a second. That's what you'd think.


Eeva

2012/6/19 Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com>:
> hiho,
>
> It seems the more powerful hardware gets, the more software sucks it up, so it
> still feels like driving an old 486 SX. My main PC has an AMD Phenom 8750
> triple-core processor with 4GB RAM, and a discrete Nvidia graphics card
> running the Nvidia driver. I use this machine for video, audio, and photo
> editing.  I thought that with three cores there would be less lag on all of
> these CPU-intensive tasks, and it is better than the old cheapie one-core
> CPUs, but I'm still feeling like it should be better.
>
> The biggest offender is Web pages. Facebook is nasty, of course, with all of
> its squillion random scripts coded by gerbils on crack, and lots of other. Is
> it worth upgrading to Intel? Or a higher-end AMD? Am I forever doomed to be
> disappointed?
>
> Carla
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