Faster hardware is a bad first solution to slow software
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The "get a better computer" response to slow software is unfortunetly more and more popular especialy among game devs.
"Our game runs like **** on your 2 yr old top of the line pc? Just get a 4090 and a 13900k. Its not our problem that the game eats 21GB of VRAM and takes up 700GB of storage."
Or when desktops didn't need 8 GB of RAM?
Tbf at that same time resolutions and asset quality was much lower.
Hmm. I'd actually argue it's a good solution in some cases. We run multiple services where load is intermittent, services are short-lived, or the code is complex and hard to refactor. Just adding hardware resources can be a much cheaper solution than optimizing code.
It can be cheap in the short term, but is not always an overall sustainable solution.