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Why would "makes your code run 1% faster" be a better sell than "saves you 1% development time by reducing the number of bugs"?
by bramblerose 9y ago
Why would "makes your code run 1% faster" be a better sell than "saves you 1% development time by reducing the number of bugs"?
- egwor 9y agoThat tends to be a more difficult sell because the counter-argument from further up is 'But we're not seeing those bugs right now, and won't we find bugs when we do this upgrade?'
- snovv_crash 9y agoIt depends on a) the size of your deployment b) whether you are paying SV salaries to your developers c) how sensitive you are to speed. In many things I'd be happy to double the number of bugs if it meant I could run the code twice as fast. Bugs can be fixed. Slow code is still slow.
- netheril96 9y agoBecause during the upgrade you would have an explosion of bugs and therefore development time fixing them. The 1% saved by purity wouldn't make a dent.