On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:38:12PM +0100, deadalnix wrote: > Le 11/03/2012 21:06, Walter Bright a écrit : > >On 3/11/2012 4:20 AM, Matej Nanut wrote: > >>I've been using an EeePC for everything for the past 2.5 years and > >>until now, I could cope. > > > >You're right that there's a downside to providing your developers the > >hottest machines available - their code tends to be a dog on the > >machines your customer has. > > > > I think a better solution is including expected performances in the > user stories and add them in the testing suite. Dev can enjoy a > powerful machine without risking to get a resource monster as a final > executable.
Even better, have some way of running your program with artificially reduced speed & resources, so that you can (sortof) see how your program degrades with lower-powered systems. Perhaps run the program inside a VM or emulator? T -- It's bad luck to be superstitious. -- YHL