In college, I was repeatedly told that optimization is a waste of time for the most part, and otherwise everything will run on servers soon with thin clients on the user side.
Performance doesn’t matter until it’s noticeable. After that it really starts to matter. The fact that any code can look sluggish on today’s hardware means that either you’re requesting a lot of data or the performance is trash.
Performance does matter but only up to the point it becomes noticeable. On the server it really matters a whole lot more because every 2x performance is 50% hosting discount.
Not noticeable, until multiple apps in the background come into play, all with their own oversized runtimes. That’s how we got into the electron app hell.
Yeah, it really shows in the startup times. Too bad all the apps need some crazy specific version of the Electron wrapper otherwise it could be reused as a flatpak layer. Still, I prefer a supported electron app from the provider over no app at all or third party.
Increase of available resources lead to so many sloppy solutions, one of the things I hate the most about modern software engineering.
Current trend of shoving an llm everywhere is that on steroids. “No need to hardcode logic just MCP it bro”
In college, I was repeatedly told that optimization is a waste of time for the most part, and otherwise everything will run on servers soon with thin clients on the user side.
Performance doesn’t matter until it’s noticeable. After that it really starts to matter. The fact that any code can look sluggish on today’s hardware means that either you’re requesting a lot of data or the performance is trash.
Performance does matter but only up to the point it becomes noticeable. On the server it really matters a whole lot more because every 2x performance is 50% hosting discount.
Not noticeable, until multiple apps in the background come into play, all with their own oversized runtimes. That’s how we got into the electron app hell.
Yeah, it really shows in the startup times. Too bad all the apps need some crazy specific version of the Electron wrapper otherwise it could be reused as a flatpak layer. Still, I prefer a supported electron app from the provider over no app at all or third party.