I'm still using some old 32 bit physical servers with Fedora, and they still work well! So I would like to have a 32 bit kernel for some other releases, maybe f28 if possible. Guido 2017-07-12 2:18 GMT+02:00 Solomon Peachy <pizza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:00:05AM +0200, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: >> The question is - why - certainly not because CPU got less powerfull that > > No, it's because modern desktop environments are much more heavily > GPU-dependent to the point where the (very lousy) onboard GPUs on > 2005-era laptops are simply not able to keep up -- or force > non-optimized software-based rendering fallbacks. > >> it's been 10-12 years back - but when gnome clock needs 30MB, >> and rendering of html pages often takes over 100MB - and nobody cares about >> any performance regression since new shiny i7 is so fast to 'mask' all >> programmers faults and 32GB or RAM also needs some usage.... > > The real limitation for that old 2005-era laptop is its ability to hold > enough memory to allow someone to fire up Chrome and hit facebook.com > without hitting swap. The pokey GPU will be the the other problem. > > But that's not due to programmers getting sloppy or not caring about > resource usage -- it's due to the realities of modern computing. A > modern web browser is certianly "more bloated" than older ones, but that > bloat buys you many more capabilities than before, not to mention > javascript engines that are an order of magnitude faster than the ones > of a decade ago. Modern web sites require those capabilities and the > greatly increased system resources (CPU, GPU, and Memory) those entail. > > - Solomon > -- > Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet dot org > Delray Beach, FL ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^ > Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
