GPUs are optimized for massive parallelism and can be much faster than CPUs that aren't for tasks fitting them. They can also be much slower if the task doesn't fit them. 500x faster than a normal processor is well within a reasonable speedup range.

But I also agree partially with you - the reason we see such a huge speedup in this case is probably because the CPU comparison point is running badly optimized code. With a few exceptions reports of huge speedups for GPU computing is because the CPU is feed with severely suboptimal code.

So what does your post title and your quote have in common?
The quote is correct: the standard mechanism for optimizations of the extremely complex graphics driver is heuristical but there is a coarse grain mechanism that allows bypassing that. It is triggered by the executable name in most cases.
IFF a game not individually optimized in that manner have similar rendering patterns as a game that does renaming can help.

No.

As usual you are talking out of your ass. There are a lot of evidence of the reverse (Nvidia technologies and optimization support that artificially decrease AMD performance) but not that using AMD tech does the same for Nvidia. I'm not talking about simply missing optimizations here BTW.

And we aren't talking about a whitelist, we are talking about drivers adjusting themselves using a coarse grained mechanism. The difference is obvious.

LOL!
Women in infantry tend to be very good soldiers, well motivated with only physical strength as a limitation.
How about you stop commenting on stuff you don't know shit about? That would be most things I gather.

How about nutters that think guns solve every problem? There's a staggering amount of magical thinking in the gun nut groups.
How about people that think owning a gun somehow makes them safe? While statistics shows the opposite?
Or those that thinks an armed society is a safe society? While every society that can be considered armed invariably descends into violent shitholes...

Gun nuts aren't usually just nuts about guns, they are nuts on most levels. Gun nerds on the other hand can be reasonable.

You are sadly wrong. If Haiku didn't still have the goal of being a BeOS clone instead of a modern OS inspired by BeOS we maybe could have had a useful system instead of the half-ready mess that it is now.

But improvements of the bad parts of BeOS isn't the problem.

Cute insult. If it had come from someone significant that is, now it's just as pathetic as yourself.

And while you could be sort of right in an embedded system most people complaining aren't using Systemd in that context. In a dynamic context like a desktop machine/notebook computer/workstation your idea of "small shell scripts" really goes out of the window.

The problem is outside the problem domain Unicode attempts to solve so it isn't strange it doesn't solve it. For some other problems Unicode try to solve the result is a mess (example: bidirectional text) so that is probably a good thing.

So why don't you buy an Xeon then? Instead of complaining that one product segment (which isn't designed for your unusual requirements) doesn't have the features you want?

And both power levels and performance per power have improved strongly the latest generations so I don't know why you are complaining - if you were right you could just continue running your old machine instead of upgrading so...

By observation?

Yeah 4 hours is abhorrent!

"The System", "the machine"... I think you have your own mental problems to sort out, paranoids tend to use those kind of description of everything they can't directly control and therefore are afraid of. Anti-government and pro-gun* groups encourage this kind of shit too, I don't know if your drinking partners do...
There are a lot of people helped by your scary "System", I personally know several and you probably do too (assuming you aren't living an eremite life in your basement) - but this isn't something that one normally like to tell others.

(* I like guns, I like the idea that one should be able to own a gun, pro-gun types == weapon fetishism)

Gone from? They have already killed a number of people, do a search about them.

Indeed it is to any rational person with some insight into the problem. However we are talking about Scientologists who aren't rational and have no insight - according to them psychiatrists are routinely raping and killing people and are (as a group) worse than the Nazis.