it's pretty impressive. I was actually using DF when we were doing some tests of the thermal issues to try an diagnose a recurrent performance issue (to wit: prior to a certain BIOS patch, these laptops would throttle down when the CPU temp hit a certain threshold, and then never throttle back up once they cooled).
We needed a way to get the CPU temp to ramp up quickly, so I had a fort with about 100 population that I'd load.
The other techs thought it was highly amusing that ballistics simulators and high-detail geocoding software wouldn't cause a rapid overheat, but an ASCII-based game was like concentrated heat death.
I'm clearly not gonna do shit about it, but I think DF may have once at least been a major factor to frying a motherboard on a $1100 gaming laptop. It managed to work out ok I suppose, but still wow. I'm echoing the sentiments I guess.
Honestly though, damn, of all improvements for DF, I'd hope CPU usage might be on the list cause, damn.
It's a real shame that multi-threading would basically take a rewrite of all the code.
Agreed, that thing was a quad core lappy with 8 GB of RAM and 500 GB of memory..... Sad to see it go.
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In other news, the guy across the hall said he might "give me a list of things to do" because "the stuff you were talking about before makes sense.... Basically I'd be his business lawyer for a flat fee/year. If I get enough of those, I have my own practice. With apartments, I can scale it easily. With this or in fact many businesses, I have to say I'm not entirely sure how the hell to scale it for pricing. I might be able to work it out so I cover my expenses Office Rent w/all office expenses, Malpractice and other insurance, and travel time. So that I get this to work. I dunno. Maybe I could base it off how much business he does, that way it would be a fair measure of how much legal stuff he could expect to dish out my way? I'd happily like to charge him a couple thousand a year if he's a relatively small entierprise. If he's a lil bigger $3000-$4000/year. If he's rather big, then $10K or up (if he does high 6 or low 7 figures but I don't think he does). \
Clearly if I quote too high, then he won't think it's worth it. If I quote too low, then I can't sustain it. Hum. Still nice to have an inquiry.