Comment by jonhohle
3 days ago
This makes me sad. Not that this work was done, it’s incredible, but that we’ve fallen so far from what was possible on meager hardware. Now everyone has a super computer in Their pocket that feel slow.
3 days ago
This makes me sad. Not that this work was done, it’s incredible, but that we’ve fallen so far from what was possible on meager hardware. Now everyone has a super computer in Their pocket that feel slow.
N95 was not "meager" for it's time - it was faster than the first iPhone.
Eh. I’m on a 5 year old iPhone and it still feels perfectly fast.
Your 5 year old iPhone has how many cores, how many GBs of RAM?
I would need to search the specs, but a N95 has 1 core and well below 1GB. A factor of dozens in the specs, but still you can get good user experience on the old devices if the software is written in a smart way.
The lower resolution of the N95 acts in favor of performance. But admittedly against user experience.
And their 5 year old iPhone can run a game that looks a hell of a lot better than Half-Life on 320x240@30 FPS too. Just listing that the hardware is different than the other doesn't give a comparison. Was there really not a shittily made app for the N95 at all? Are there really not apps that perform well on a 5 year old iPhone?
We're just looking at a single app optimized for a platform nearly 2 decades after release and somehow concluding people don't ever optimize software these days. Some software is always going to be inefficient as can be but there is more well optimized software available now than there ever has been.
64MB RAM on the Nokia N95.
My 6-year-old Samsung usually feels pretty quick, too, with its 8 CPU cores and 12GB of RAM.
We used to do most of the same things (browse the web, send some email or texts, make phone calls, listen to music, watch videos) with hardware that was positively tiny by comparison.