"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."

Re:"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware be... by Timon3 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:41PM (#39016974)

Is there some way to reliably simulate this, e.g. using a VM? It would be nice to have IDE, build tools etc. using all available speed while running the output as if it was on slower hardware.

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Re:"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware be... by _heimdall on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:45PM (#39017045)

I've had better success with VMs for performance dogfooding in a desktop environment.

On mobile I've always gone back to testing on low end hardware, there are just too many inconsistencies when trying to simulate slower performance, outdated OS problems, touchscreen drivers, etc.

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Re:"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware be... by testless on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:49PM (#39017117)

For Webapps, chrome can emulate slow network and/or devices. For Kubernetes or Docker compose, you can restrict resources, I believe.

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Re:"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware be... by apienx on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:08PM (#39017477)

Dev Containers are cool. There’s a VSCode extension.

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Re:"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware be... by dist-epoch on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:42PM (#39016997)

Assign a single core to the VM, 8 GB of RAM. Surely you can also bandwidth limit the storage.

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