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		hkt on Aug 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage... GTA V has graphics card requirements that, I suspect, may be quite large compared to Twitter. Although it is worth noting that GPU acceleration in the browser is increasingly a thing: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/upgrade-graphics-driver... That being said, I don't think it addresses the problems with client side applications, although it may allow more complex ones.

peacefulhat on Aug 5, 2020 [–]

Websites like Twitter are not render bottlenecked. Even a software rendered game from decades ago like doom is doing more on the screen than Twitter.

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