Re:Go 1.7 toolchain improvements
by munificent on Saturday April 02, 2016 @01:23PM
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> I think the Go community is a little unhealthily obsessed with this particular metric.
I've been on teams that are not obsessed with this metric and what very often happens is that every patch landed makes the system just a tiny bit slower. The next thing you know, your tools feel glacial and users are miserable.
And, in fact, at work right now my team is trying to feverishly claw back some performance we lost over the past few months without really noticing.
If you're working on a system where performance is a key part of the UX, you really do have to be vigilant about it.
I've been on teams that are not obsessed with this metric and what very often happens is that every patch landed makes the system just a tiny bit slower. The next thing you know, your tools feel glacial and users are miserable.
And, in fact, at work right now my team is trying to feverishly claw back some performance we lost over the past few months without really noticing.
If you're working on a system where performance is a key part of the UX, you really do have to be vigilant about it.