• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I didn’t realize web browsing in Chrome required fully textured 3D objects. Not to mention playing 720p video with PCM audio in a separate app doesn’t grind everything to a halt.

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      6 months ago

      well the gpu doesn’t care if it’s 2d or 3d, but you are rendering a whole bunch of textured triangles… (separated into tiles for fast partial or multithreaded re-rendering), and also just-in-time rasterizing fonts, running a complex constraint solver to lay out the ui, parsing 3 completely separate languages, communicating using multiple complex network protocols, doing a whole bunch interprocess communication in order to sandbox stuff

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      6 months ago

      Everything, including Chrome, is rendered as a 3D object these days. It’s a lot faster, but takes more RAM.

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      6 months ago

      There are shared libraries that have to be loaded regardless of you having a tab that uses them or not.