PCs aren't faster, they have more cores, so they can do more at a time, but it takes effort to optimize for parallel work. Also the form factor keeps getting smaller, more people use laptops now and you can't cheat thermal efficiency.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

My first PC ran at 16MHz on turbo.

PCs today are orders of magnitude faster. Way less fun, but faster.

What's even more orders of magnitude slower and infinitely more bloated is software. Which is the point of the post.

It's almost impossible to find any piece of actually optimised software these days (with some exceptions like sqlite) to the point that 99% percent of the software currently in use can be considered unintentional (or intentional) malware.

Particularly egregious are web browsers, which seem designed to waste the maximum possible amount of resources and run as inefficiently as possible.

And the fact that most supposedly desktop software these days runs on top of one of those pieces ofintentional (it's impossible to achieve such levels of inefficiency and bloat unintentionally, it requires active effort) malware obviously doesn't help.

[–] TheparishofChigwell@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Turbo slowed your processor down though

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only on some and name brand PC's which used it for compatibility. For home built or local store, the turbo would overclock. I remember telling a friend, that although their 16mhz could run at 20, to not do it because it would compromise longevity! Ha! Mind you the cpu's in those days didn't have heat sinks but still- Oh no your 386 might not work in 20 years from running too hot!

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

Wow so it actually did have some turbo behind it. Fascinating, thanks

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Browsers are not the same as they where. They are basically bikers ring systems in themselves now.

[–] ragas@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I came from C and C++ and had learned that parallelism is hard. Then I tried parallelism on Rust in a project of mine and it was so insanely easy.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 6 points 3 days ago

What do you mean pc's aren't faster? Yes they have more cores, they also clock higher (mostly) and have more instructions per clock. Computers now perform way better than ever before in every single metric most tasks, even linear ones, could be way faster

[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's all about memory latency and bandwidth now which has improved greatly PC's are still getting faster. There is a new RAM standards being pushed right now CAMM2 is really exciting it pushes back the need for soldered memory.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago

The faster single core out of order execution performance on newer x86 CPUs lets it work on that higher bandwidth of data too.