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read 'em and weep ladies, mollytime runs just fine on a Core 2 Duo
@aeva ukraine colors yuss
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read 'em and weep ladies, mollytime runs just fine on a Core 2 Duo
glxinfo -B reports this machine has hardware accelerated 3D graphics supporting a maximum GL core version of 0.0 (and compat version of 2.1) so I guess for all intensive porpoises this machine does not in fact have hardware accelerated 3D graphics anymore
I didn't check, but I'm guessing SDL picked the software rendering pipeline, because the UI was a bit sluggish. however! all of the patches I tried played just fine, so the Core 2 Duo can handle the synth pipeline which is the important part
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glxinfo -B reports this machine has hardware accelerated 3D graphics supporting a maximum GL core version of 0.0 (and compat version of 2.1) so I guess for all intensive porpoises this machine does not in fact have hardware accelerated 3D graphics anymore
I didn't check, but I'm guessing SDL picked the software rendering pipeline, because the UI was a bit sluggish. however! all of the patches I tried played just fine, so the Core 2 Duo can handle the synth pipeline which is the important part
my main takeaways from this exercise so far are 1) I'm a long ways off from ever needing to optimize the audio thread performance; none of my patches are complex enough yet for it to be problematic that I'm still just chaining a few dozen lambdas together passing around doubles through a long chain of shared pointers at 48000khz 2) until polyphony makes me eat my words, the benefit of doing so will mostly be in improving battery life on my laptop, and 3) the UI perf has room for improvement
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my main takeaways from this exercise so far are 1) I'm a long ways off from ever needing to optimize the audio thread performance; none of my patches are complex enough yet for it to be problematic that I'm still just chaining a few dozen lambdas together passing around doubles through a long chain of shared pointers at 48000khz 2) until polyphony makes me eat my words, the benefit of doing so will mostly be in improving battery life on my laptop, and 3) the UI perf has room for improvement
and that last point might really just be a case for getting a GPU for that machine
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and that last point might really just be a case for getting a GPU for that machine
oh holy smokes, /proc/cpuinfo says this is a 3.2 ghz cpu. i assumed this machine was somewhere closer to 1 ghz
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oh holy smokes, /proc/cpuinfo says this is a 3.2 ghz cpu. i assumed this machine was somewhere closer to 1 ghz
@aeva even the retro vibe machines are fast now
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oh holy smokes, /proc/cpuinfo says this is a 3.2 ghz cpu. i assumed this machine was somewhere closer to 1 ghz
ah, it's an Intel Pentium E5800 "wolfdale" processor, so either I am mistaken about it being a Core 2 Duo or it is one and the branding is just confusing, but either way wikipedia dates this somewhere between 2008 and 2012. I would have purchased this either late 2011 or 2012 because I remember buying it to celebrate getting a job at Creative Commons
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@aeva even the retro vibe machines are fast now
@halcy I remember back in high school twenty years ago a friend I were drooling over a video of someone overclocking a pentium 4 to something crazy like 4 or 5 ghz (with an elaborate liquid nitrogen cooling system)
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@halcy I remember back in high school twenty years ago a friend I were drooling over a video of someone overclocking a pentium 4 to something crazy like 4 or 5 ghz (with an elaborate liquid nitrogen cooling system)
@aeva now I have a laptop in front of me that turbos up to 4 ghz just as a regular thing. and it has like 16 cores that can all do that. it doesn't even really get very hot. also the instruction set is of course way better. it's a bit silly.
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ah, it's an Intel Pentium E5800 "wolfdale" processor, so either I am mistaken about it being a Core 2 Duo or it is one and the branding is just confusing, but either way wikipedia dates this somewhere between 2008 and 2012. I would have purchased this either late 2011 or 2012 because I remember buying it to celebrate getting a job at Creative Commons
@aeva Pretty sure in this era they applied the Pentium or Celeron branding to the low-cost parts, and the Core 2 Duo branding to the high-cost parts
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@aeva now I have a laptop in front of me that turbos up to 4 ghz just as a regular thing. and it has like 16 cores that can all do that. it doesn't even really get very hot. also the instruction set is of course way better. it's a bit silly.
@halcy CPUs haven't been slow for a very long time and now they're crazy fast. you really have to go out of your way to get a dog shit CPU now
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@halcy CPUs haven't been slow for a very long time and now they're crazy fast. you really have to go out of your way to get a dog shit CPU now
@aeva I have a CPU on the dashboard of my car like just as a fidget toy and it's like a 2ghz dual core. I considered selling it on ebay when I took the computer it was in apart but it literally would be more in postage to do so than the thing is worth, if someone even wants it
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@halcy CPUs haven't been slow for a very long time and now they're crazy fast. you really have to go out of your way to get a dog shit CPU now
@halcy there's basically no good reason for this machine to be obsolete, except that infosec researchers are keeping the trash gyre alive with shit like this
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs itlb_multihit mmio_unknown
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@aeva I have a CPU on the dashboard of my car like just as a fidget toy and it's like a 2ghz dual core. I considered selling it on ebay when I took the computer it was in apart but it literally would be more in postage to do so than the thing is worth, if someone even wants it
@halcy hehe I used to have a pair of ram sticks hanging from the rear mirror like a pair of fuzzy dice
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@aeva Pretty sure in this era they applied the Pentium or Celeron branding to the low-cost parts, and the Core 2 Duo branding to the high-cost parts
@swiftcoder I just found a chart on wikipedia that confirms this: E7xxx and E8xxx would have been Core 2 Duo, higher would have been Xeon, and lower was pentium and celeron. so this would not have been sold as a core 2 duo
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ah, it's an Intel Pentium E5800 "wolfdale" processor, so either I am mistaken about it being a Core 2 Duo or it is one and the branding is just confusing, but either way wikipedia dates this somewhere between 2008 and 2012. I would have purchased this either late 2011 or 2012 because I remember buying it to celebrate getting a job at Creative Commons
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ah, it's an Intel Pentium E5800 "wolfdale" processor, so either I am mistaken about it being a Core 2 Duo or it is one and the branding is just confusing, but either way wikipedia dates this somewhere between 2008 and 2012. I would have purchased this either late 2011 or 2012 because I remember buying it to celebrate getting a job at Creative Commons
ok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfdale_(microprocessor) has a handy little chart that explains intel's branding for this processor generation. the E5800 was sold as a "pentium" and not a "core 2 duo", so this is actually a *lower end* processor than I thought đ
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@aeva says here it's a Pentium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfdale_(microprocessor)#Wolfdale-3M
@ruojake I just found that as well XD
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ok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfdale_(microprocessor) has a handy little chart that explains intel's branding for this processor generation. the E5800 was sold as a "pentium" and not a "core 2 duo", so this is actually a *lower end* processor than I thought đ
I need to find a more dog shit computer to figure out where exactly the perf wall is. Maybe this means there's a riscv port in mollytime's future.
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ok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfdale_(microprocessor) has a handy little chart that explains intel's branding for this processor generation. the E5800 was sold as a "pentium" and not a "core 2 duo", so this is actually a *lower end* processor than I thought đ
@aeva too great for a Celeron, too flawed to join the Cores 2 Duo, forever cursed
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@Xabacadabra però oh, facciamo l'esercito che conquistiamo il mondo, noi semo romani, basta parlare romano studiare storia solo romana e vedi che figurone ci facciamo
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@pupxel so, no, but I have been pondering on and off whether or not it might be worth it to try to port mollytime to dreamcast
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i'm trying and failing to find a screenshot of the part of chrono trigger where Lucca says to Marle "Machines aren't capable of evil... humans make them that way", but it turns out there's a lot of fan art of that scene, which is nice.
anyways, computers aren't slow... it's programmers that make them that way
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@Xabacadabra e qua con le eccellenze italiane, made in Italy, Italia qua Italia lĂ non siamo diversi, ci chiudiamo da soli in un villaggetto gallico ma senza pozione magica
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@aeva 8086? :3
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Scoperta in un bosco abruzzese famiglia di orsi che vive in una casa con acqua calda ed elettricitĂ
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Surely! Thanks.
I can confirm that it's better for an 8 years old to just read some books at home. Real home works are better suited for older children
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