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> I wish extreme performance goals and requirements would become a new trend.

Well, there will always be demoscene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lbAMLrl3xI ) which I've always found remarkable.

The Windows demos almost always use a lot of the system libraries for the bulk of their work., which hasn't impressed me quite as much as what you can do in 4k with bare DOS --- where the code is directly manipulating the hardware. No libraries, no GPU drivers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGQEeArYDS8

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