Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming

Re:Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, o... by varispeed on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:02PM (#26470442)

It used to be a practice in the 90s that companies would insert Sleep instructions or other means to delay program execution e.g. to make appearance of heavy computations being done or to make people buy a "pro" version that was without such elements. Given how frankly stupid is the error, could there be some merit to that? For example to give themselves some ammo for the next versions - if they won't find anything to improve they could pull the rabbit out of the hat and said hey we optimised our code and it loads much faster, buy the new version!

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Re:Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, o... by fao_ on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:39PM (#26471458)

Did you actually read the code. I think if they were going to do that it would be a literal sleep instruction rather than a naievely used way of looping over data

edit: Akchually, the DRY method of doing this would be to make a function like:

    /* Remove this when it's time for a performance improvement! */
    function Optimize(int N)
        /* do stuff N times (so you can limit the amount of performance improvement) */
    end

and then put that in the places you want to be able to optimize in the future

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Re:Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, o... by lupire on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:26PM (#26470690)

They still do that today.

It's why TurboTax is so darn slow and hard to use, wasting user's time.

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Re:Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, o... by kylewatson on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:58PM (#26471035)

I wouldn't be surprised if they found a faster turbotax made people trust it less. You want to see it chugging away to "find your deductions" and "catch your mistakes".

Ironically the hardest thing I needed TT to do this year was handle my wash sales and it didn't even blink as it imported the 1099s. Wait, maybe it didn't handle them correctly... See what I mean? Now I better double check.

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Re:Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, o... by jtsiskin on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:53PM (#26472373)

Yep, that’s exactly what they are saying

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Re:Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, o... by viraptor on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:24PM (#26471326)

[citation... wanted] I mean I know it happened, but beyond one or two famous examples which get repeated on tdwtf, was it really a practice? (As in something done regularly, and not in shareware which had explicit visible delays)

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Re:Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, o... by thepasswordis on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:49PM (#26471942)

"Please hold while we look up your account..."

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