If your software is slow, throwing hardware at the problem is often a bad first solution.
  • Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one
    23·
    1 year ago

    The “get a better computer” response to slow software is unfortunetly more and more popular especialy among game devs.

    “Our game runs like **** on your 2 yr old top of the line pc? Just get a 4090 and a 13900k. Its not our problem that the game eats 21GB of VRAM and takes up 700GB of storage.”

  • bia@lemmy.ml
    72·
    1 year ago

    Hmm. I’d actually argue it’s a good solution in some cases. We run multiple services where load is intermittent, services are short-lived, or the code is complex and hard to refactor. Just adding hardware resources can be a much cheaper solution than optimizing code.