alt Hacker NewsI’m a lot more optimistic now that RAM is scarce. A lot of focus will be on maximizing software performance.
See: iOS 27. It’s faster than the previous version, even on very old phones.
I also think AI will contribute to removing a lot of the tedium surrounding optimization.
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wlesieutre • today at 2:11 AM
Is iOS 27 particularly impressive, or was iOS 26 a shitheap? Maybe a bit of both.
senderista • today at 2:20 AM
It fucking better be faster, iOS 26 basically bricked my iPhone SE, which had never been the slightest bit laggy or glitchy before that cursed update.
People these days are saying “don’t look at the code”.
People are shipping all sorts of weird architectures, non-performance code, etc.
I wish that the ram scarcity would drive more performant software however I just think that the way people are shipping software currently will not lead to this