On Sep 10, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Sep 10, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Rick Mann <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Not that it'll happen, but developers should choose a terrible machine for development. That way, you make sure your app works on the lowest end of the device spectrum, not only the highest. Naw. Apple management tried to enforce that for a while during OS X 10.0 development — developers were only allowed to put 64MB of RAM into their machines. It was awful, because builds took forever due to terrible paging. They gave up on it after seeing what it did to productivity. [https://xkcd.com/303/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__xkcd.com_303_&d=BQMFaQ&c=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=ie7S-J__EKnfyVOBV7-jV2rZ--p47O6vkyTklpDM3h4&m=uOKPeIbEZbD6KNgRB-w2glD38mwgTCRyjGw5_WHUq_M&s=hDlrt9-d9Yreqy4az0DQ53sV23Lkk9zA3LKmRJtZNFw&e=>] That’s why I had - what was it, 4 different Macs in my office then? Still do, technically - Mac #5 is pretending to be a PC. In reality you want to give your _testers_ the terrible machines :) Then they can complain to you about bad benchmark scores or subjectively slow performance or whatever. My axe is a Retina Macbook Pro with 16GB of RAM. It’s wicked fast at everything I need to do, I can work on the train or in bed, and it’s a joy to read text on that display. In my experience the only time you need to throw serious hardware at your build process to speed it up is if you’re building an entire OS or a huge C++ app (*cough* Chrome *cough*). —Jens _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/lrucker%40vmware.com This email sent to [email protected]
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