[rescue] Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9, First thoughts

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Saturday, January 19, 2002 at 18:24:13 (-0500), Kevin Loch wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9, First thoughts
>
> Developers should be forced to work on a machine that has 1/10th the speed
> and 1/4 the ram of the intended (or current) platform.   Imagine how much better
> mozilla would be if it was developed for an SS5-110 or a PI-133 with no more than 64
> megs.
> The problem is people code slow, sloppy, ineficcient code because it runs fine on
> the typical
> developer machine (which is almost always better/faster than the typical users
> machine).

The problem there is you'll need to give the programmers a super-fast
cross-compile machine on which they can only build, never run and test,
their programs (and of course at the same time make it easy for them to
build on the fast machine, and test on the slow machine).

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