*and* slow-ish internet.
We had few surprises when some newbie dev noticed that the site doesn't work quite as well outside of 1Gbit connection with 1ms ping to the app server...
Re:The Great CPU Stagnation
by whynotmaybe on Thursday May 18, 2023 @06:19PM
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Don't say it too loud, friend of mine worked at a company where everyone had the same computer.
I5 Gen 3, 500g HDD and 8gig of ram.
Yes, outlook runs fine for the secretary, visual studio not so fine for debugging.
Re:The Great CPU Stagnation
by didgetmaster on Thursday May 18, 2023 @06:27PM
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I wasn't suggesting that all the developers have to develop and compile their code on antiquated hardware. They should still have fast development machines.
What I was saying that if the developers ONLY run their software on their high-powered computers and never try it on slow hardware, they generally resort to the 'it runs fine on my machine' response when customers start complaining about performance.
I worked at a place like that, brought in RAM and SSD from home
Supposedly the Office for Mac team had to run their builds on the original 60MHz Power Mac
>"It would be nice if every developer had to run their latest build on 10 year old hardware while testing it out."
That is exactly what I do with my desktop product. I test it on really crappy hardware first.
Instead of their high-powered development machine with the latest CPU, tons of high speed memory, and the fastest SSD; they would get to experience what many of their customers have to endure on slower hardware with capacity constraints.
Nothing spurs optimization like seeing first hand how your code creeps along on slow hardware.