Why? What changed? Well it sure as shit isn't CPU count. Every Android sold over the past 5 years has had 8 cores.

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   Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 20:31:31 JST Alex Russell

   I've been banging on for years about how the low-end of the mobile market has been just totally f'd in terms of the properties that make chips *actually* fast (process shrink + aggressive memory hierarchy optimisation; not core counts), and for this year's PIG post, I'm making EVEN MOAR CHARTS: