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As a developer I don't want to be on the cutting edge of hardware, then you get into telling the users to always get faster machines (like you have), new OSs, e
by LarryMade2 6y ago
As a developer I don't want to be on the cutting edge of hardware, then you get into telling the users to always get faster machines (like you have), new OSs, etc. Prefer to be near the trailing edge where the code is stable and software optimization really makes a difference.
Where do you guys see the benefits of you having newer hardware than your customers?
- detaro 6y agoThe customers run the optimized software, I need to compile it (and run other expensive buildsteps), run (slower) debug builds of it, run it with profilers slowing it down, ...
- frankus 6y agoThis is a valid concern for web and desktop development, but it's not uncommon to be cross-compiling for a mobile or embedded system where that isn't a concern.
- bobthepanda 6y agoYou can track latency and whatnot through KPIS, there’s no need to shoot yourself in the foot over it. If it really sucks you’ll know; there’s that famous experiment where 100ms in latency at 2006 Amazon was $100M in sales.