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Comment by jjcm

15 days ago

More info on this - I ran a few tests on my mac and linux systems with chrome/firefox. I highly suspect this is due to gpu acceleration being disabled. https://image.non.io/e7165331-432b-45c3-986e-c2973f12d377.we...

As soon as gpu acceleration is disabled, the webpage goes from 60fps across the three systems I tried to ~7-20fps when software rendering is forced.

I suspect if you go to chrome://gpu you'll find something different from what I have here: https://image.non.io/a47a1b03-1b87-4fd5-92a2-b39e62b1cfd9.we...

Nice research, you are right! Seems that low power mode was on. I have been using the web, Netflix, Apple TV app, and anything else just fine without ever noticing a thing though.

So that all being said, a normal website should work totally fine on low power mode, and this should definitely be a negative on the Opus implementation.

  • > and this should definitely be a negative on the Opus implementation.

    I would disagree with this based on two things:

    1. the prompt, which explicitly states to render the planets in the background in 3js (thus the gpu implementation).

    2. the purpose of this, which is a test of its ability to convert an image design into a html/js/css implementation that matches it as closely as possible. I've talked about this before when it's come up[†]. The purpose is to be a good test, not a good design or website.

    For reference, here's the full prompt used:

    > Create a web page implementation from the following instructions: https://non.io/lcars-build-instructions

Even after ensuring GPU acceleration is enabled on Firefox on Linux, it's still sluggish.