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[–] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

I know it makes me sound like an of man shouting at clouds but the other day I installed Morrowind and was genuinely blown away by how smooth and reliable it ran and all the content in the game fitting in 2gb of space. Skyrim requires I delete my other games to make room and still requires a whole second game worth of mods to match the stability and quantity of morrowind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 34 minutes ago

High res textures (especially normal maps) and higher quality/coverage audio really made game sizes take off. Unreal's new "Nanite" tech, where models can have literally billions of polygons, actually reduces game size because no normal maps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Ah yes, those precious precious CPU cycles. Why spend one hour writing a python program that runs for five minutes, if you could spend three days writing it in C++ but it would finish in five seconds. Way more efficient!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

It used to be pretty terrible, but the frameworks are getting there, starting with the languages they are based on.

Believe it or not, Java has been optimized a ton and can be written to be very efficient these days. Another great example of a high-level, high-efficiency language is Julia. And then there is Rust of course, which basically only sacrifices memory-efficiency for C-speeds with Python-esque comfort. It's getting better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago

I'm happy if it's actually running in python and not a javascript app with electron.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Why would an RTX 4090 make Python faster?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t worry this post was written by a first year computer science student who just learned about C. No need to look too closely at it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

The only language worth discussing is brainfuck

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

Joke's on you, he was talking about "Phyton". /s