software performance
Speed as a mark of quality: bloat, boot times, and software that got slower on hardware that got faster.
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- GR
Guillermo Rauch quoted
Our readingOptimizing JavaScript chunking strategy can produce significant efficiency gains at internet scale
Their wordsImproving Next.js chunking can yield massive efficiency improvements at internet scale.
- 9 days earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsWe do not have to accept that these computers that are literally a trillion times faster than what sent us to the freaking moon have to take 42 minutes before they're ready after you unbox it. No, unreasonable. These computers are so damn fast, they should feel damn fast.
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- GR
Guillermo Rauch quoted
Their wordsAs software evolves, it tends to get slower, more bloated, buggier, and bigger.
- 6 months earlier
- CM
Craig Mod quoted
Our readingSoftware should be fast, knowable, and owned by the person using it
Their wordsI've always been opinionated about how software should work. Mainly, it should be fast. The bounds of it should be "knowable." The contract you have with it should be "sane" (i.e., you just own it).
- 6 years earlier
- DS
Derek Sivers quoted
Their wordsI prefer coding everything by hand, because I don't like the huge piles of garbage that the automated generators create.
- DS
Derek Sivers quoted
Their wordsThese programs that generate a website, app, or file for you spit out thousands of lines of unnecessary junk when really only 10 lines are needed.
- 3 months earlier
- CM
Craig Mod quoted
Our readingSpeed in software is probably the most valuable, least valued asset.
Their wordsSpeed in software is probably the most valuable, least valued asset. To me, speedy software is the difference between an application smoothly integrating into your life, and one called upon with great reluctance.
- CM
Craig Mod quoted
Their wordsSpeed and reliability are often intuited hand-in-hand. Speed can be a good proxy for general engineering quality. If an application slows down on simple tasks, then it can mean the engineers aren’t obsessive detail sticklers.
- CM
Craig Mod quoted
Our readingSoftware should unbloat over time: the longer it is around, the more elegant it should become.
Their wordsI love software that does this: Software that unbloats over time. This should be the goal of all software. The longer it’s around, the more elegant it should become. Smooth over like a river stone.
- CM
Craig Mod quoted
Their wordsFast software is not always good software, but slow software is rarely able to rise to greatness. Fast software gives the user a chance to “meld” with its toolset. That is, not break flow.