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this is one thing i can’t stand with macs anymore - they have enormous input latency.

if SPI results in lower power usage, then great. USB can easily manage single digit millis, and i’d estimate 4 or 5 (?!) frames of composition and/or vsync latency. insane.

it means my 2019 macbook pro has ~80ms input latency - absolutely noticeable but not the worst thing in the world - the m1 and m2 machines are actually worse somehow. the higher refresh rate displays help (back down ~50ms) but HFR is a crutch.

i really wish apple would get on top of that.

i think peripheral interconnect is a moot point :)




I don't see how SPI would introduce latency, quite the opposite. SPI is a super simple bus, you write bytes and get bytes in return - do that in response to an interrupt generated via a separate interrupt line and you can't get any less latency than that.


ah, i didn't mean to suggest that SPI is adding additional latency (i'd have bet the opposite), i'm pretty confident it's everywhere else in the stack causing it.


I doubt the choice of SPI is related to input latency issues.


i was trying to say that switching to SPI to reduce latency would be redundant, given that the rest of the stack seemingly adds so much..!


I wonder why this is true when their iOS touchscreens are very responsive.




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