Performance-Aware Systems: Back-of-the-Envelope Hardware Throughput Analysis
Systems Programmer & Educator
Demonstrates mechanical sympathy in systems engineering: computing theoretical CPU/memory bandwidth ceilings first so orders-of-magnitude software bloat becomes impossible to ignore.
[EPILEPSY WARNING] At the end of this video, I demonstrate colored text on colored background tiles. The reference renderer displays this benchmark so quickly that the screen appears to flash colors violently. If you are photo-sensitive, you may want to stop watching the video before I run the colored text demo. [/EPILEPSY WARNING]
Many modern terminals (like Windows Terminal, etc.) run extremely slowly - often hundreds or thousands of times slower than PC hardware allows. Yet for some reason, pointing this out leads to lots of strange excuses from developers, all of which are not true.