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1. Cory Birdsong 5 min later

   @zachleat WELL, i wonder why the Switch’s ~2016-era mobile SOC had trouble with it :pika:

   1. Zach Leatherman 8 min later

      @cbirdsong it was/is so excruciatingly slow on my Switch in 2025 😭

      1. Aleš Roubíček 6 hr later

         @zachleat @cbirdsong in the bright side, you don't (hopefully) spend so much on games :)

2. blturner 18 min later

   @zachleat @colingourlay @jaames absolutely unsurprising given how sluggish the animations on the menu transitions are

3. Yoshi's Story 🦖💚 1 hr later

   @zachleat Huh no wonder it's super laggy, If I recall correctly the og switch doesn't allow JIT compilation (which modern browsers use to optimize js performance) & doesn't react use a ton of javascript?

4. jake lazaroff 1 hr later

   @zachleat @colingourlay @jaames any idea what the new stack uses 👀

5. Levi Beach 1 hr later

   @zachleat @colingourlay @jaames this… explains so much 😣

6. Andrew Douglass 3 hr later

   @zachleat I’m just glad the games weren’t written in react.

7. alexanderadam 12 hr later

   @zachleat /CC @marcoroth