Re: The joy of Typography

On 19/10/2024 18:26, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-10-18, 186282ud0s3 <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
 

    I wonder how much CPU goes into nothing but
    displaying nice-looking proportional fonts
    these days ?

 A lot, no doubt.  Compared to the actual number-crunching
that does the actual work, I wouldn't be surprised if it
was in the range of 80 to 90 percent.
 I like to do that background number-crunching, and leave
the pretty GUIs to someone else.  The last few generations
of CPUs have enabled me to make my stuff run _really_ quickly.
 

If your cpu is rendering static data, it isnt doing much at all. Sitting in a pause loop waiting for something to happen.
Playing videos and 3D games is what chews mine. Transcoding videos is dreadful.
All 4 cores panting for breath.
Running the window shit isn't that big a deal these days - and hasnt been since Pentiums IIRC
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