Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by tazjin on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:29AM (#26914005)

You joke, but I think this is actually true. If companies gave their developers of client-facing software slower computers the resulting software would end up being faster.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by shynrou on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:34AM (#26914588)

Yep because they would not get anything done ;)

In my experience as a web dev, all the performance goes out the window as soon as the tracking scripts are added.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by sevencolors on Friday April 23, 2021 @02:38PM (#26917718)

I had nearly a perfect Lighthouse score until the marketing team added GTM

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by TheCoelacanth on Friday April 23, 2021 @03:50PM (#26918473)

I don't think it's the developers who are the problem. In my experience, they're usually the ones advocating to spend time improving performance.

PMs and executives are the ones you should give slow machines to if you want more focus on performance.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by rurp on Saturday April 24, 2021 @12:04AM (#26922163)

Agreed, IME it's nearly always the devs arguing to improve performance.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by lghh on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:49AM (#26915287)

But it would take them an order of magnitude longer to ship it. `npm install` even on a fast machine is a slog.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by tazjin on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:00AM (#26915407)

> `npm install` even on a fast machine is a slog

It may not be with fewer and less heavy dependencies!

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by pdimitar on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:20AM (#26915640)

It's not the end product itself that eats huge amounts of RAM or CPU. It's the dev tooling.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by tazjin on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:09PM (#26918664)

We must be using very different websites.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by pdimitar on Friday April 23, 2021 @05:34PM (#26919483)

Obviously a lot of the modern web is crazy and many sites are pretty heavy on resource usage.

It's still not comparable with your average developer tooling in terms of footprint, was my point.

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