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> Photoshop filter

Funnily enough someone correct me if I'm wrong but these are almost entirely ancient single core code.

No, they are very easily parallelized and even use the available GPU for the last dozen years.

Sean Parent does love squeezing all the performance out of even the tiniest devices.

There is a video of him loading the largest (he knew of at the time) JPG on an iPad 1. The image is several gb and it works pretty well on a machine with much smaller RAM.

I think this is the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giNtMitSdfQ

If not, I am watching and will try to post it later.

EDIT - I don't think that is the right talk, but its still good.

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