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What software are you worried about? Hackernews is a great place to share and hear if anyone has similar experiences or maybe managed to find a fix!
PSA: Dont get a mac with apple silicon if you need/want Virtual Box https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Interesting idea, but the quality of data analysis is rather poor IMO and I'm not sure that they are actually learning what they think they are learning. Most importantly, I don't understand why they would see such a dramatic increase of sub 20s build times going from M1 Pro to M2 Pro. The real-world performance delta between the two on code compilation workloads is around 20-25%. It also makes little sense to me tha…
M3s have a smaller memory bandwidth, they are effectively a downgrade for some use cases.
> All developers work with a fully fledged incident.io environment locally on their laptops: it allows for a This to me is the biggest accomplishment. I've never worked at a company (besides brief time helping out with some startups) where I have been able to run a dev/local instance of the whole company on a single machine. There's always this thing, or that, or the other that is not accessible. There's always a got…
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Mostly x86 virtual machines for Linux and Windows. ARM ports of both platforms exist but don’t always meet use cases (binary apps, etc).
You can run x86 binaries on ARM Linux VMs running on Apple Silicon machines. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...
Author here, thanks for posting! Lots of stuff in this from profiling Go compilations, building a hot-reloader, using AI to analyse the build dataset, etc. We concluded that it was worth upgrading the M1s to an M3 Pro (the max didn’t make much of a difference in our tests) but the M2s are pretty close to the M3s, so not (for us) worth upgrading. Happy to answer any questions if people have them.
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I didn't see any analysis of network building as an alternative to M3s. For my project, ~40 million lines, past a certain minimum threshold, it doesn't matter how fast my machine is, it can't compete with the network build our infra-team makes. So sure, an M3 might make my build 30% faster than my M1 build, but the network build is 15x faster. Is it possible instead of giving the developers M3s they should have inves…
Network full builds might be faster, but would incremental builds be? Would developers still be able to use their favourite IDE and OS? Would developers be able to work without waiting in a queue? Would developers be able to work offline? If you have a massive, monolithic, single-executable-producing codebase that can't be built on a developer machine, then you need network builds. But if you aren't Google, building…
This is a great write-up and I love all the different ways they collected and analyzed data. That said, it would have been much easier and more accurate to simply put each laptop side by side and run some timed compilations on the exact same scenarios: A full build, incremental build of a recent change set, incremental build impacting a module that must be rebuilt, and a couple more scenarios. Or write a script that…
This is bad science. You compared the thing you had to the thing you wanted, and found a reason to pick the thing you wanted. Honesty should have compelled you to at least compare against a desktop–class machine, or even a workstation with a Threadripper CPU. Since you know that at least part of your workload is concurrent, and 14 CPUs are better than 10, why not check to see if 16, 32, or 64 is better still? And the…
Being Mac only can be an advantage - I’ve been on both sides of trying to maintain & use non-trivial dev environments and the more OSes you bring in for people to work on, the harder it gets. Bringing in Windows or Linux has a set up cost and a maintenance cost that may exclude it from even being considered. Edit: plus, Macs are ARM, other options are inevitably x86. So it’s also two CPU architectures to maintain sup…
Even in an ideal scenario where your app already works on ARM, you will be dealing with OS-specific quirks unless your production machine runs MacOS.
This is a great write-up and I love all the different ways they collected and analyzed data. That said, it would have been much easier and more accurate to simply put each laptop side by side and run some timed compilations on the exact same scenarios: A full build, incremental build of a recent change set, incremental build impacting a module that must be rebuilt, and a couple more scenarios. Or write a script that…
Does anyone have any anecdoctal evidence around the snappiness of VsCode with Apple Silicon? I very begrudgingly switched over from SublimeText this year (after using it as my daily driver for ~10yrs). I have a beefy 2018 MBP but VScode just drags. This is the only thing pushing me to upgrade my machine right now but I'd be bummed if there's still not a significant improvement with an m3 pro.
I have 2x intel macbook pro's that are honestly paperweights. Apple Silicon is infinitely faster. It's a bummer because one of them is also a 2018 fully loaded and I would have a hard time even selling it to someone because of how much better the M2/M3 is. It's wild when I see people building hackintoshes on like a Thinkpad T480 ... its like riding a pennyfarthing bicycle versus a ducati. My M2 Air is my favorite lap…
I'd happily fix that for you if you want. I'd even pay shipping to take it off your hands. Anything would be an upgrade for my mom's old toshiba laptop ;) email in profile