Notices by Chris Marsh (marshian@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@mekkaokereke thanks for the reminder, I made pancakes for my family this morning and they were great.

15 years ago, I worked on a game that ran at 60Hz on a 333Mhz cpu on the PSP. It animated skinned transforms for a dozen rigs, transformed maybe 20k triangles and rasterized them, decoded and mixed music, and a dozen other things, all in 16ms. I think about that a lot when things are slow on my 100x faster computer.

@danil Yeah, I guess by throwing in rasterizing triangles I opened the comparison to how many more pixels are on modern systems with 4k monitors and muddied the waters a bit because there is a separate gpu that does most of that part (even on the PSP) but I guess my main point was that much tinier computers do a whole lot of stuff in 16ms, so if something you do on a modern machine takes on the order of seconds it better be doing a ton of work