Aug 17, 2026, 5:54 AMI'm sorry, so the solution for the slow software is not to optimize, but boost the CPU frequency?? Sure that will temporarily help, but the underlying problem remains, like painting over mold, selling the house and leaving the issue for someone else.
https://www.techspot.com/news/113459-microsoft-expands-cpu-boosting-feature-all-windows-11.html
Aug 17, 2026, 6:10 AM@djlink there is nothing a little thermal stressing of the expensive fragile magic sand rectangle can't fix
Aug 17, 2026, 6:36 AM@djlink the underlying problem is that carefully making lean programs is slow and, besides, requires respecting skilled senior workers. On the other hand fat bloated development tools that trade efficiency for shorter development times let businesses hire much cheaper and abusable workers, and also managers can practice Zerg Rush style leadership by simply asking for multiple features on a whim and seeing what sticks.
This was happening even before AI and with other tools besides AI.
@djlink these people are acting a weekend at bernie's scenario with moore's and koomey's law
@djlink to be clear this is an optimization. it's basically boosting clocks when you're doing an operation that's highly likely to do some processing, then the CPU can go back to sleep faster. Rather than having a slow clock speed ramp-up during the latency critical period. Or keeping the clock speed high normally.
Aug 17, 2026, 11:17 AM@djlink i've improved my commute time by driving 3x the speed limit
Aug 17, 2026, 7:21 PM@djlink If your software is just doing busywork refcounting and following endless chains of pointers, it's not burning any energy, so it's nice and cool and you can juice the frequency through the roof. They're just helping keep your caches nice and cool.