When SSDs became the norm, performance stopped being an issue for most of my work. I can still push a machine to its limits with some of my work, but that’s no

When SSDs became the norm, performance stopped being an issue for most of my work. I can still push a machine to its limits with some of my work, but that’s not a surprise: modeling and simulation generally can saturate any system you use. The only times I feel performance issues these days are in the self-inflicted category thanks to developers who adopted the write-once/run-everywhere/consume-all-the-resources mentality. I’m pretty convinced if those developers vanished and we had native apps for most things, performance would be a non-issue for most computing users who aren’t doing heavy gaming or resource intensive analysis tasks.