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Re:Maybe people do care about performance and reliability by gilbetron on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:58PM (#34795068)
Having spent years and years with visual studio, I can guarantee it didn't function like that on the computers of the time with the typical software/driver load. He's running that on a VM that is vastly faster than what you could get at the time.
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Re:Maybe people do care about performance and reliability by touisteur on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @04:28PM (#34796307)
Running Visual C++ 6 long past its prime was qiote a nice experience, before I had to switch to VS2005. Sure was nice to be able to have for-loop variables not spill out the loop scope but it was depressing as hell to see a very nice and responsive machine keel over.

Spending hours upon hours every day getting an app snappier and snappier and watching the VS hog making everything so slow and sad.

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