Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!kreme.dont-email.me!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lewis Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc Subject: Re: Who is going to buy the first Arm (M1) MacBooks? Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:43:41 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Miskatonic U Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <111120202015475066%nospam@nospam.invalid> <121120201421014910%nospam@nospam.invalid> <131120200630461436%nospam@nospam.invalid> Reply-To: g.kreme@gmail.don-t-email-me.com Injection-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:43:41 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: kreme.dont-email.me; posting-host="164f9b99bce798c1eb29f06f0ddb1a71"; logging-data="1052"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+6wV64EmSz2ivdspZxWuHy" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ug7wxC6qFgAJNWo1T9M1d6TqcOY= X-Face: )^b5"R:T7U>9~:PEn3YkzMfW*[b1qKeU.fP9C8~8HpU9}lA&6`bH1z X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Mail-Copies-To: nobody Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:134775 comp.sys.mac.portables:1371 comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc:2141 In message <131120200630461436%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam wrote: > In article , JF Mezei > wrote: >> >> > one major advantage is both the cpu and gpu can access the same data, >> > eliminating the need to copy it. another advantage is that the memory >> > itself is much faster. >> >> >> Yes, you save when the app transfers to the GPU the scene description. >> scene. But the GPU also uses a lot of memory to render the scene for >> each frame. And that is a lot of memory used by the GPU which now draws >> from RAM available to the CPU. > you don't understand how things work, do you? He really doesn't. At all. -- He wasn't good or evil or cruel or extreme in any way but one, which was that he had elevated greyness to the status of a fine art and cultivated a mind that was as bleak and pitiless and logical as the slopes of Hell.