10 Jun
2013
10 Jun
'13
6:22 p.m.
We develop our vertical client/server app on powerful development machines,
then use load testing software to see how it scales on multiple user loads
and slower client machines.
Using one machine is a non-starter, as we have different hardware
requirements depending on what the user is doing. If you're doing basic
accounting, you don't need a lot of machine. If you are doing statistical
analysis on millions of data points, you do.
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au>wrote:
On 10/06/13 1:18 PM, Tothwolf wrote:
...
I'm slowing coming to the opinion that a first year C developer should
be /forced/ to develop on a CPU and memory constrained platform, such as
Agree 100%. It wouldn't help if they *continued* to develop on machines a
few years behind the curve, as well.
--T
a 386 with 4-8MB of memory vs a modern multi-core CPU with multiple
gigabytes of memory, so that they will learn
first hand how to write
more efficient C code. I wonder how many of the current userspace
developers and package maintainers have ever even touched a 386 based
machine, let alone something even more resource limited?