I definitely feel more productive with a larger monitor compared with just a laptop, and I know there have been studies on this.
I wonder if it's primarily the window switching overhead? E.g. would a tiling WM with lots of virtual desktops perform better?
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I've never seen a JIT with an "eject" option.
If I'm happy with the steady-state performance of my system, I'd rather disable the JIT and lose additional optimisation in favour of removing the tracing overhead. Do any languages offer this?
Thoughtful talk on the compile time, runtime and cognitive overhead of abstractions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHIkrotSwcc
All the spectre/meltdown hardening techniques have a significant CPU overhead.
I imagine CPU manufacturers have had to invest significantly in redesigns recently. Still, the additional overhead might force me to buy new hardware, and I guess others will too.