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The article is about this: https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html
by sillywalk 3y ago
The article is about this:
https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html
- mcv 3y agoI think the primary point of this article is that it's not even telemetry and bloatware (though I'm sure those don't help either), but app frameworks. Apps that used to be written in C using light-weight ui frameworks meant for the much weaker machines of 20 years ago, are now written in all sorts of fancy, modern, sometimes cross-platform frameworks like UWP and Electron, interpreted languages, languages that require a VM, etc. Those systems are apparently a lot slower, require more time to initialise, etc. And it's all done to save developer time, because for the past 30 years we've been saying that developer time is more expensive than execution time, and that may be true, but we haven't really considered the impact on user time.