20 May
2016
20 May
'16
12:44 p.m.
On 2016-05-20 3:03 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
This is still a huge problem that afflicts web development as much as it
did desktop development.
Devs should have down-specced machines (say, 5+ years old) or at the
very least, should be regularly testing on them.
--Toby
I don't
know if that was a specific market ploy based on Moore's Law,
an actually quite smart move, . . .
or just the generally accepted practice of
getting an initial version
with the API working any which way, then refactoring to improve
performance/correctness in later versions.
For decades, I used to rant that the biggest problem with Microsoft
software was that they treated their programmers "too well".
That if Microsoft programmer had space problems, they would immediately
replace his machine with one with more RAM and bigger drive, and he
wouldn't learn to be memory or disk space efficient.
That if his programs were too slow, that they would immediately replace
his machine with a faster one, and he would never learn to write fast or
efficient code.
If there was ever a hardware problem, they would immediately replace the
machine. Accordingly, Microsoft programmers NEVER actually experienced
hardware issues, and had to IMAGINE what disk errors, etc. would be
like, resulting in software that couldn't properly handle them when they
happened. ...
OK, so development should be targeted for next generation hardware.
BUT, testing should be done with what is actually out in the real world.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com