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People take for granted that an app responds in milliseconds. Engineers at Google, et al, of course immediately recognized that performance was tied to adoption
by ArtWomb 7y ago
People take for granted that an app responds in milliseconds. Engineers at Google, et al, of course immediately recognized that performance was tied to adoption in the early days and left no stone unturned in their quest for optimizations. The analogy today in portable devices is maybe with battery life drain during game play.
- naikrovek 7y agoI think with search results you're right, and with things like GMail it seems performance is at the bottom of the priority list. Perhaps even off of the priority list entirely.
- pradn 7y agoPerformance is just a requirement. If it's good enough, it's good enough to release. It's not ideal and immensely wasteful, but that's how incentives are aligned.
- criddell 7y agoI sometimes wonder if GMail users are expected to leave it open all day long. I bet that's how most Googlers work.
- entropicdrifter 7y agoI keep a tab pinned in Firefox. Runs great if you never close and re-open it.
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