Once it takes more than 10 seconds, many people are likely to alt-tab to ”fun” - and often take quite a while to tab back
You won't get a 6x performance improvement from replacing a two year old laptop. Laptop performance improvements have been tailing off for a while.
The OP mentioned a two year old computer. Do things compile 6 times slower than on today's computer? I'd guess at most 1/6th slower, ie 5/6ths of the time...
Re:Why I use old hardware
by seanwilson on Friday January 25, 2019 @11:48AM
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It's a hypothetical example to illustrate the point that "anything that slows you down or irritates you eats up more minutes than just the raw time you're waiting".
For the sake of a few thousand dollars for a laptop that can be used for several years, even a 1% increase in efficiency is very likely worth it.
Anything that slows you down or irritates you eats up more minutes than just the raw time you're waiting too.
Say something takes 1 second to compile vs 6 seconds on slower hardware and you're having to recompile ten times to fix a bug. The raw waiting time might only be 10 seconds vs 60 seconds but that extra pause of having to wait every time to see if you've fixed bug might annoy you enough to drain significantly more productivity out of you.
You're best keeping your developers happy so they enjoy plowing through the work instead of hating it.