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amelius • today at 2:30 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Nowadays most of my processing happens on the GPU, so htop/top better evolve or become mostly irrelevant because a tool that will support both CPU __and__ GPU will replace it.

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FpUser • today at 2:50 PM

Irrelevant for you does not mean irrelevant for others

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zekrioca • today at 3:44 PM

Stupidest comment ever.

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sevg • today at 3:55 PM

> Nowadays most of my processing happens on the GPU, so htop/top better evolve or become mostly irrelevant

If you’re a 3D rendering designer, an ML engineer or a crypto bro, then sure.

Here are the common workloads (for the average SWE on HN) that use CPU/RAM:

  - compilation/builds
  - language servers and IDEs
  - test suites
  - local containers
  - local databases
  - node tooling
  - browsers
  - data processing
  - compression and encryption
  - searching/indexing
Ok sure, top/htop is totally irrelevant now /s
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