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

Re:"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware be... by londons_explore on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:53PM (#39017181)

Ideally they have a fast machine to run compilers and shit on, but then the actual product they are developing runs on a slow machine.

Luckily, Chrome has a feature to deliberately throttle the CPU and network speed for precisely this reason.

Sadly hardly anyone uses it.

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Re:"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware be... by londons_explore on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:36PM (#39017918)

By the way... For anyone reading this wanting to solve exactly this problem...

This feature is currently part of devtools. But if it could be enabled as part of Chromes policy engine, then IT departments could enable it by default for all developers, managers, and everyone working on the product, specifically for only web URL's of the product itself.

So: If you want to help solve the fact computers are slow for everyone, probably one of the most impactful things you could do is to send a PR to the Chromium project to let the network and CPU slowdown code[1] be possible to activate from the policy code [2].

[1]: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...

[2]: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...

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Re:"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware be... by groestl on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:14PM (#39017573)

> Sadly hardly anyone uses it.

It would be great if Chrome's Developers would use something similar to run Chrome itself.

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