Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView
by revelation on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:52PM
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RAM is harmless. Even the most inept developers would struggle to waste as much of it as Slack Desktop.
No, the real casualty in this cycle have been spinning rust, good old hard disks. Their performance was never great but a sure fire way to kill it and make sure it never recovers is to trigger a full fucking unthrottled index scan at every boot that inevitably finds nothing changed. Looking at you Dropbox.
No, the real casualty in this cycle have been spinning rust, good old hard disks. Their performance was never great but a sure fire way to kill it and make sure it never recovers is to trigger a full fucking unthrottled index scan at every boot that inevitably finds nothing changed. Looking at you Dropbox.