Modern infrastructure made waste too easy. Resource limits that started as temporary safety buffers can harden into requirements unless teams keep asking what the system is actually doing.
A little while ago in a retrogaming community, someone asked why Atari 2600 games always ran at 60fps when even NES games sometimes had slowdown. It was explained that the video system in the 2600 isn’t independent of the main CPU as it is in other consoles, so if the game program doesn’t keep updating the display with correct timing, it gets scrambled.
A little while ago in a retrogaming community, someone asked why Atari 2600 games always ran at 60fps when even NES games sometimes had slowdown. It was explained that the video system in the 2600 isn’t independent of the main CPU as it is in other consoles, so if the game program doesn’t keep updating the display with correct timing, it gets scrambled.
Truly no choice!