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> Deferring on performance work I'll be curious to see how this plays out. History seems to show that boosting performance later is a monumental challenge. Ea
by spiffytech 4y ago
> Deferring on performance work
I'll be curious to see how this plays out. History seems to show that boosting performance later is a monumental challenge.
Early Chrome showed that Firefox was leaving a lot of performance on the table, and it took Firefox a long time to catch up.
- it_citizen 4y agoBut their product survived and they ended up being wildly successful. In a lot of projects, early optimization hurt the development speed and maintainability, sometimes killing the product. It is easier to see performance bottlenecks once a product is wildly used than adding optimizations everywhere we suspect it might become a problem later.
- Narishma 4y agoFirefox is not wildly successful. I think you misunderstood the comment.
- it_citizen 4y agoI did