alt Hacker News> He compared Visual C++ 6's debugger on hardware from the time to current Visual Studio's debugger on current hardware, and found the former much faster when performing the exact same tasks on the exact same project file and code files.
this shouldn't be right, wtf
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_dain_ • yesterday at 11:23 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-0tCy4P1U at 21:30 for modern Visual Studio and then 35:51 for Windows XP era Visual Studio.
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Yes, it really shouldn’t, and so Casey goes to great and careful lengths to fully evidence these results. This is a nuance that’s easy to miss in evangelizing “Casey Muratori content” to others. It’s easy to gloss “abjectly unacceptable performance” as “bad performance”.