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No, someone mentioned that mortal kombat and doom were examples of counter culture, and as someone living in rural Australia in the early 90s, I agreed.
Right, so you agree? This thread is about counter culture, and your talking about generic internet usage facts and % of playstation sales when it went mainstream. I played Wolf and Doom as shareware in Australia when they were released, including Kali.
Now we’re talking. Doom was a massive deal because of the violence (as you mentioned), but also because it moved entertainment revenue away from MSM and onto PC’s and the internet.
And now we have SIMD/AVX-512, as well as the M1 ... the compilers/runtimes need to be able to output the optimized instructions to make applications really fly.
Also, OP photoshop might be slow because it's dialing into the cloud?
Because software has to be written in a way that leverages the new hardware. The optimization is not automatic. If you haven't read this[1] then it may provide some insight.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/250967/ (see parts 5 and 6)