Re:Is coffee a good excuse for a slow application start-up t...
by brudgers on Saturday November 24, 2012 @08:46AM
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Thought experiment:
Let's suppose that load time could be halved. Four minute load time means that employees will still spend the same fifteen minutes getting their coffee.
Even an order of magnitude improvement in load time would be over a minute and long enough to justify checking Facebook on one's iPhone. The fifteen minutes is still lost - maybe more because at a minute of load time, people might wait until they have their coffee before starting the application.
Let's suppose that load time could be halved. Four minute load time means that employees will still spend the same fifteen minutes getting their coffee.
Even an order of magnitude improvement in load time would be over a minute and long enough to justify checking Facebook on one's iPhone. The fifteen minutes is still lost - maybe more because at a minute of load time, people might wait until they have their coffee before starting the application.