I’ve experienced the same performance issues with cgo + a library compiled with zig cc. IIRC it seemed like an issue with the zig tooling not plumbing the optimization flags through the ancient autotools build system for our required dependency. After a while fiddling, we just rolled it back too.
I haven’t tried this in about a year, so maybe the tooling doesn’t have these issues now.
As someone who used Android from day 1, and recently (about 1 year ago) switched to iOS, I think all of this comes down to the trend of unification and same-ness in smartphones over the years.
All of the reasons I liked Android from the start — replaceable battery, SD card, headphone jack, diversity of of hardware options, customizable software/launchers/default apps, rootable — have been slowly one by one removed in flagship phones over the last 5 years.
Sure you can still get a low or mid tier phone with some or all of these, but all the expensive Android models (read: good build quality, software support, acceptable perf and battery life) have slowly become more and more like an iPhone, yet without any of the small things that make iPhones good to use: excellent build quality, extended support, ecosystem…
So android isn’t cool with teenagers, but it’s mostly because Android devices just suck now.
As an allegory: when I was a teen, PCs weren’t “cool” compared to Macs (remember those old ads?) But in 2023 PC gaming is more popular than ever, so PCs are cool with the youth.
Teens today will buy a PC so they can play CS or League with their friends, something they can’t really do well with a Macbook Air. Would you buy a $1000 android phone when it’s just a worse iPhone?
This is exactly it, NVIDIA is continuously “understaffed” and many ICs end up splitting responsibilities across different projects at different places in the stack. In stark contrast to many other large companies where an SWE team might have several entire other teams of 10+ engineers just to support the tools, build systems, test runners, etc.
Engineering groups are more fluid and individual contributors get moved around a lot (relative to other companies) according to demand. And management groups don’t really have “fiefdoms” the same way they can at huge companies… possibly due to the controversial matrix management employed here.
typing without capitalization can help to create a more informal, somewhat playful tone. same goes for slight misspellings or abbrs instead of spelling out the full word. its just another way to add a small amount of “tone”.
I haven’t tried this in about a year, so maybe the tooling doesn’t have these issues now.