GTA Online JSON Loading Bottleneck

Text on the meme

# tl;dr • There’s a single thread CPU bottleneck while starting up GTA Online • It turns out GTA struggles to parse a 10MB JSON file • The JSON parser itself is poorly built / naive and • After parsing there’s a slow item de-duplication routine

What it means

A dark terminal-style slide summarizes why GTA Online has unusually long loading times: startup is bottlenecked by one CPU thread, which inefficiently parses a 10MB JSON file and then performs slow item de-duplication. The joke is the absurdly poor engineering behind a major game's loading screen, making the meme useful as a reaction to needless software inefficiency. EN: A dark terminal-style slide summarizes why GTA Online has unusually long loading times: startup is bottlenecked by one CPU thread, which inefficiently parses a 10MB JSON file and then performs slow item de-duplication. The joke is the absurdly poor engineering behind a major game's loading screen, making the meme useful as a reaction to needless software inefficiency.

Objects

terminal-style text slide / текстовый слайд в стиле терминала dark background / тёмный фон bullet points / маркированные пункты computer code text / текст компьютерного кода JSON file / JSON-файл CPU thread / поток процессора GTA Online game / игра GTA Online loading process / процесс загрузки 10MB file / файл размером 10 МБ parser / парсер item de-duplication routine / процедура удаления дубликатов элементов