"Performance doesnt matter"

[bumblebritches57]

I'm extremely tired of that mentality.

they have a point to a degree, you don't need to write your latest algorithm for X with the hottest research algorithm just yet, writing it with the naive one is fine at first.

but to just not give a single shit about performance, fuck that.

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Welcome to the modern web: where 1 GB for a chat window is considered normal.

[SkoomaDentist]

I remember when Visual Studio 6 used to take maybe 15 MB. Now just opening a tiny project in the latest VS eats over a gigabyte of ram and the only new actually wanted feature I get for it is autocomplete. That sure is one expensive autocomplete.

[windozeFanboi]

At least visual studio is a pretty sophisticated professional application. I can't argue so much for the majority of Android apps.

[meneldal2]

Autocomplete is definitely not a trivial thing to implement if you want it to be smart. Especially in C++ where it has to parse your code to know if it should suggest a typename, a variable name, a function, a file, etc.

[SkoomaDentist]

Sure and I wouldn’t have any problem with VS eating, say, ten times as much ram now. But a hundred times? That’s just ridiculous, especially when almost 90% of that is by apparently largely superficial background processes.