@sinbad >financial instrument than an enabler

I saw many "programmers" who work at gov or at banks-infrastructure, even gamedevs - who do not even have PC at home - they write code only at job, and use internet only at job - not interested in "anything" related to IT... programming is just a boring job.

And even before AI - huge frameworks/comfort of corporate apps - moved many ppl from "learning" to just "using".
Now with AI - you dont need to even "use" anything - AI do everything for you.

@marshian Borderlands2 had PSP port - it was working with 15fps there.
On PC with turn-off shadows and all postprocessing BL2 was working on 720p on 8600 Nvidia with 30fps.

PSP is 480×272 screen resolution.
720p is 7-times bigger than that and 30 fps vs 15 -> 7x2=14 times bigger performance required to render BL2 on 720p than on 480×272 screen.

Same linear scale goes to modern games - it is mostly about "screen size" - 1440p is alot of pixels.

@marshian so 333MHz x 14 = 4.5GHz
So it can be impressive that modern games can work just on ~3Ghz CPU and just ~2GHz memory speed while rendering 2k-4k image, if you calculate and linear downscale everything - how much performance per pixel used.

@sos when I see pointers used in 2k24 - I run as far as possible from that project.
You must be insane to use pointers in 2k24.

@zeux everything with >512Mb ram should support/have compiler C++11.

Devices below that - is some low end hardware that do some specific stuff with its own sdk, not consumer hardware.