22 Feb
2016
22 Feb
'16
2:39 p.m.
On 2016-02-22 9:31 AM, Mouse wrote:
Absolutely! This is a neglected concept. It applies equally to front end
development, which is awash with bloat and resource wastage (hi Chrome!)
I at least
have a card cage with an uVAXII (KA630, UC07 etc ) and had
run Quasijarus a while before. Yes it's fun to play with old
machines, but I don't think that it is funny to build and test
Software like PostgreSQL on them.
If I cared about PostgreSQL I would; testing on slow/small machines is
a very effective way to keep developers honest, instead of hiding
algorithmic sins behind "hit it with enough hardware speed it's not
visible" - not visible, that is, until it goes into production with a
large job.
It's one of the reasons (there are others) I no longer track NetBSD:
they've dropped that.
So has Minix 3 - last I checked, x86 & ARM only - what's the point of that.
--Toby
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