John Carmack on Eclipse performance

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:36:12 +0100
Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+dng at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27/09/2013 23:10, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:35:29 +0100
> > Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+dng at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> "Hardware does get faster more rapidly than software gets slower --
> >>
> >
> > Well, when you're in an industry that's constantly upgrading to the
> > latest top-of-the-line hardware, perhaps; for everyone else,
> > certainly not.
> >
> 
> New hardware is cheap, for a developer's salary.

But not always necessary, depending on the exact field and industry.

> But even so desktop 
> specs haven't even improved much in the last 3 years or so (apart
> from GPUs). My desktop is 4 years old and I don't think I would tell
> a difference in performance if I upgraded it (again, apart from the
> GPU).
> 

Yea, exactly.

I'm amazed that even "low-end" budget machines are so
ridiculously powerful these days. Pretty damn cool.