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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by lord_braleigh on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:13PM (#22470915)
To be fair, small fast messenger 2020 is "better" (aka more features / millisecond of cold start) than small fast messenger 2016. The cycle doesn't always go up monotonically, even if developers pretend it does. But it is possible to go "full-circle" through the loop and wind up in a better place than you started, and it's even possible for each stage of the loop to be truly justified given product needs.
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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by joshspankit on Monday March 02, 2020 @09:06PM (#22471204)
How much of that is simply improvement in processing speed of the device and/or better OS APIs?
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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by ferzul on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:36AM (#22472854)
indeed, it could be rational business needs. at a time when it's more expensive to hire devs, maybe it looks better to have a single codebase. at a time when performance is more valued, maybe it's better to rewrite in native.
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