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[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There are actual use cases where direct memory access and pointer magic can be very efficient or almost necessary. We work a lot with large images and basically always the first steps are some pointer operations.

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

What kind of pointer operations?

[–] Venator 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Sounds like you just need a bigger graphics card to me. 😂