[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by DNSB

How did you manage to get a 128 core CPU from only $3000? Our 64 core, 128 thread Threadripper machines cost more than that just for the CPU (~$7200 Cdn). BTW, they also make great room heaters.

lol. I was just throwing out random numbers/pricing.

(In a few more years, those chips'll drop down in price though. )

Here I am stuck on my ONLY 4-core/8-thread Intel, getting jealous of all the latest bleeding edge benchmarks.

.... If only I could get a job like my man, Phoronix, constantly benchmarking and testing the latest stuff:

• AMD EPYC 7773X "Milan-X" Performance Continues To Impress With Tremendous Opportunity For Large-Cache Server CPUs
  
• AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" Linux Benchmarks - Superb Performance
  
• Ampere Altra Max M128-30 Linux Performance Preview
  
• Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance From 16 To 128 Threads With AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

beautiful... beautiful...

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And then I keep reading about the bleeding edge Linux stuff, and wonder when the heck that gloriousness will finally be trickling down to the normal humans.

Like:

• Linux Scheduler Build Improvements From "Fast Kernel Headers" Queued, FKH v3 Posted
  
  • Ingo Molnar touching pretty much every single Linux file lowering build times by >80%... by simply getting rid of tons of complicated dependencies.
    
• Latest Linux Code Smashes 14M IOPS Per-Core With Intel Core i9 12900K + Optane
  
  • Jens Axboe (and others) rewriting and optimizing I/O to push godly amounts per core... going from ~2 million to ~15+ million iops within the past year.
    

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Side Note: Kind of feels like me following the bleeding edge of LibreOffice.

The past ~12 months, I've been helping answer questions + write mini-tutorials on the subreddit. (Spreading the good word on Styles, converting lots of people!)

I've gotten sucked into QA + submitting bug reports (6 of my bugs have already been fixed within the past few months).

I'm constantly updating to the latest versions as they come out.

And then you run across the reality of "the public"... where many people are:

• running ANCIENT versions of LibreOffice
  
  • ~50% of downloads, millions of people, are still getting 10-year-old OpenOffice!!!
    
  • It's only been within the last few years where LibreOffice numbers have finally surpassed OpenOffice.
• getting crashes and bugs that have already been fixed years ago
  
• missing out on tons of great functionality
  
• [...]

bookman156's mind is going to be blown... WEBP images are just now getting support in:

• Microsoft Office (August 2021)
  
• + LibreOffice (7.4) (coming out in August)

And these are BLEEDING EDGE office programs.

Want to guess how many people aren't using these latest-and-greatest versions? Tons.

Want to guess how smart it is to use WEBP in ebooks, even though it's "now supported in EPUB3" (as of November 2019)? Very dumb.

(Firefox just got WEBP support in January 2019.)

Now Google is trying to work towards WEBP2...

AV1 + AVIF are just gaining adoption (hardware encoding/decoding making it into this year's flagship smartphone chips)... and you want to be shoving AVIFs into static e-readers from before these formats even existed? lol.

Reality is, you convert the images to JPG / PNG, and shove them in your ebook—this would work across 100% of all devices, not <1% that supports WEBP.