@fasterthanlime I hope you’re not going to be bothered by the RAM and storage - I do have 16 GB of RAM but I’m often wishing I had gone for more storage.
@fasterthanlime oh hey, buy Rectangle Pro (ten euros one-time) and set up the touch-based throws for window splits. thank me later or i'll comp the price
I would say that this is not much of a difference because (1) I only really care about debug builds (2) I usually change little a time, so I am never rebuilding the whole project.
Definitely going to consider Mac Mini for the future!
@laplab if you want to provide me with a typical change (in the form of a .diff or just general "add this line to that file"), I can measure hot/incremental builds!
@fasterthanlime we play “whose machine is faster” at work, and even my old M1 Pro MacBook is an absolute monster compared to the Thinkpads m’learned colleagues have.
I often wonder how much of this is better thermals, how much is just MIPS, how much is due to the astonishing raw NAND bandwidth, and how much is just down to aarch64 instructions being easier for LLVM to put together than x86-64 ones.
@fasterthanlime uh yes we mean the tests usually take 2 hours to run and we need to run them with JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx2G or something, was wondering if M2 would be somehow magically faster or not :v
@tudor I don't. My macbook has 8GB of RAM and it hasn't been a limiting factor for me! But I also SSH into servers often: I can get 64GB of RAM anytime I want.
@fasterthanlime that's pretty neat! i feel weird for saying this but impressive that it runs davinci well too! i haven't used it myself, i'm just used to the dumpster fire that Premiere is...
@fasterthanlime So Zed is really that good eh? I've been following its progress since its announcement, patiently waiting for the promised Linux version.
@fasterthanlime GitHub actions now has Apple silicon for free in open source projects (fairly recent additiaddition). If course not every project is on GitHub and open source
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