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When I worked at Microsoft, Windows took far, far longer than an hour to build from scratch. I remember walking a few buildings over to the burn lab to pick up
by brantonb 7y ago
When I worked at Microsoft, Windows took far, far longer than an hour to build from scratch. I remember walking a few buildings over to the burn lab to pick up DVDs of the latest build. I don’t have any hard data, but running a full build on your dev box was very rarely done.
- pretty_bubbles 7y agoWas it just the windows kernel? Or did it include all of the utilities in Windows?
- lisper 7y agoThe dynamics of commercial projects can be very different from open-source. You're much more likely to tolerate sitting through long builds if you're being paid to do so.
- fest 7y agoUntil management notices, does the X hours saved multiplication by number of developers, and the resources for improvement will be found soon.
- cameronbrown 7y agoDefinitely not. People are far more expensive than machines.