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I don't use Gmail, but Google Maps seems to be getting slower and slower all the time for me on some of my older boxes. I imagine that it's just the classic ca

I don't use Gmail, but Google Maps seems to be getting slower and slower all the time for me on some of my older boxes. I imagine that it's just the classic case of developers having good machines, and the market share factor meaning they just don't really have to care. I develop on a 12 core processor. If I make something user facing, I have to go out of my way to ensure that it's performant on other hardware; it's not part of the standard build/tweak loop.

MiddleEndian 8y ago
My laptop is good. Not as beefy as the desktops issued at Google but moreso than the vast majority of the laptops. The new gmail, along with Google sheets, are sluggish as hell in Firefox. On the occasion I use Chrome they are noticeably faster. I have no insight as to whether it's on purpose. If I'm forced to switch to the new gmail, it's the gmail web client I'll be dropping, not Firefox.
Wowfunhappy 8y ago
>I imagine that it's just the classic case of developers having good machines. But, like, that's ridiculous! Developers should be testing the performance of their stuff, either by looking at system resources or by keeping some "crappy" testing machines around. Preferably both. I wonder what the environmental impact is of users upgrading their hardware in order to run completely unoptimized stuff like this?
- dingaling 8y ago
  > or by keeping some "crappy" testing machines around. We used to do that at ${BIGCORP} until the CTO moved us to an equipment leasing policy in place of buy-and-depreciate. Instead of being able to retain the old machines for testing they went back to the lessor every three or five years. It used to be that most devs had a couple of old PCs under their desks for hacking around on stuff, but that was no longer tolerated. The policy seemed like a minor financial tweak to the C-suits but was actually quite destructive to innovation.

MiddleEndian 8y ago

My laptop is good. Not as beefy as the desktops issued at Google but moreso than the vast majority of the laptops. The new gmail, along with Google sheets, are sluggish as hell in Firefox. On the occasion I use Chrome they are noticeably faster. I have no insight as to whether it's on purpose. If I'm forced to switch to the new gmail, it's the gmail web client I'll be dropping, not Firefox.

Wowfunhappy 8y ago

>I imagine that it's just the classic case of developers having good machines. But, like, that's ridiculous! Developers should be testing the performance of their stuff, either by looking at system resources or by keeping some "crappy" testing machines around. Preferably both. I wonder what the environmental impact is of users upgrading their hardware in order to run completely unoptimized stuff like this?

dingaling 8y ago
> or by keeping some "crappy" testing machines around. We used to do that at ${BIGCORP} until the CTO moved us to an equipment leasing policy in place of buy-and-depreciate. Instead of being able to retain the old machines for testing they went back to the lessor every three or five years. It used to be that most devs had a couple of old PCs under their desks for hacking around on stuff, but that was no longer tolerated. The policy seemed like a minor financial tweak to the C-suits but was actually quite destructive to innovation.