Joke aside, the computer I used a little more than a decade ago used to take 1 minute just to display a single raw photo. I'm a liiiittle better off now.

[–] akincisor@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

More like:

You paid for more RAM, so I'll use whole amount of RAM.

-- All software developers

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

used to take 1 minute just to display a single raw photo

See, that’s a great example!

RAW processing (at least in that context) hasn’t really changed in 10 years. It’s probably the same code doing all the heavy lifting.

But most software doesn’t have that benefit.

[–] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was it a Raspberry Pi?

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It was a s. 754 Sempron at a time when people were already running Core 2 Duos ans Quads.

[–] sip@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

sory for making you feel old..er.

i7 4th gen/ haswell was 13 years ago. I still use it.

that sempron is probably more than 17 years ago.

I had an athlon xp 2000+, single core. OC to 2666MHz with proper thermals

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I got that PC in high school and had to run it a bit afterwards because I didn't have the money for a new one. When eventually I got around to replacing it, I got an X99/Haswell-E system and it was a night and day difference.