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		oefrha on Jan 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine > My preliminary speed tests were fairly slow on my Macbook. However, once I deployed the app to an actual iPhone the speed of OCR was extremely promising (possibly due to the Vision framework using the GPU). I was then able to perform extremely accurate OCR on thousands of images in no time at all, even on the budget iPhone models like the 2nd gen SE. I suppose that’s an old Intel MacBook? I’d be very surprised if the Vision framework performs better on a 2nd gen iPhone SE than even the first M1 MacBook Air.

iamflimflam1 on Jan 11, 2023 [–]

I think he was running it in the simulator - which won't perform anywhere near as fast on this type of thing.

oefrha on Jan 11, 2023 | [–]

The simulator runs a native build though. Might not be optimized, not sure.

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