Re: Mulberry-discuss Digest, Vol 87, Issue 2

I work overseas in places with bad internet: Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.  You know, places that are representative of the internet access of the vast, vast majority of the population of the planet. 

Dialup is faster in most cases.  Latency and bandwidth are highly constrained.  In Iraq we have a 2mb link that is shared by about 20 users and about 100 machines.  That's ultra-premium access.

When people say that performant optimization for low bandwidth links is increasingly irrelevant it is a quite infuriating manifestation of myopic global ignorance.  While revenue generation comes from locations with high bandwidth links, so one would expect commercial operations to deprioritize low bandwidth, the overwhelming majority of the world on the wrong side of the digital divide (including minority neighborhoods in the US, by the way); it isn't something that seems compatible with a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the common good.

One of my great frustrations as a person who connected to servers with 1200 baud modems initially and had perfectly usable tools is the generally flabbergasting ignorance of modern "developers" that can't seem to compile a text editor that doesn't require a gig of RAM and weigh in at 100mb and require a 10mbps link with sub 50msec latency to work right.  Because they grew up considering 4G access a "compromise," they're effectively incompetent to develop for the global market.
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