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might be a form of Jevons Paradox (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

used to take 1 minute just to display a single raw photo

See, that’s a great example!

RAW processing (at least in that context) hasn’t really changed in 10 years. It’s probably the same code doing all the heavy lifting.

But most software doesn’t have that benefit.