How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

[Mark Wieder]

On 05/30/2015 08:07 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> In short, the developers were completely insulated from any
> understanding of the average user experience.  It simply wasn't possible
> for them to know how slow their code had become in the eyes of their
> market.

I had a similar experience doing QA work at Apple. I refused on 
principle to do what the other developers were doing: using the latest 
bleeding-edge computers off the line, instead verifying that things 
worked across the range of systems. This led to filing some interesting 
bug reports...

My favorite was finding what turned out to be a bug in the way the MPW C 
compiler created its stack frames. It would have been completely missed 
and shipped if I had been using the latest and greatest CPU set, and at 
first the bug report was dismissed as unreproducible because of course 
it worked fine on the newest machines.

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com