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Comment by scrose

5 years ago

I don’t think the OP was specifically calling out any game devs. Any engineer who has worked on any software projects knows that you usually can only do as well as your deadlines and managements priorities allow for.. Unless the stars line up and you have the resources and autonomy to fix the issue yourself, and love working for free on your own time.

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sillysaurusx  5 years ago

Unfortunately, they were calling out gamedevs:

Tweaking two functions to go from a load time of 6 minutes to less than two minutes is something any developer worth their salt should be able to do in a codebase like this equipped with a good profiler.

But, I fully agree with your assessment, for what it's worth.

  • scaramanga  5 years ago

    I read that to mean "If a manager would say to one of his developers, who are probably all worth their salt, take a profiler and go figure out why our load times suck, then this would be fixed."

    But a manager shouldn't even have to do that, because in a well functioning team, if the dev leads come back with such a fix, they won't get punished for going off the reservation and would probably be doing this of their own initiative.

    But if things like that get met with "why have you wasted time on this? we gave you the list of priorities and it does not include load times" then dev leads will make sure all developers time is filled with things which are prioritized.

    Edit: grammar