• falsemirror@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    I love to bash MS, but this feels like an industry-wide trend to /never/ care about optimizing beyond the bar of “typical specs of new devices in rich countries”. I’m guessing it’s just to limit labor costs, and computers are less-rapidly-improving than the 90s/00s?

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      10 months ago

      Code optimization has pretty much fallen by the way side since ram prices keep going down and cpu performance keeps improving.

      Why spend the time if you don’t have to?

      Browsers are some of the worst culprits.

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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        10 months ago

        premature optimization is the root of all evil - Donald Knuth

        which does not excuse a total lack of optimization, but gotta hit those kpi’s

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          10 months ago

          if it remember it correctly it was said in relation to algorithm optimization > code optimization