User: thisyen

Deliberately slow code

On: When Your Hardware Isn't Obsolete Soon Enough

I work for a software company who were doing some work for a chip manufacturer (name begins with 'I' and ends in "el" :).

The product a coleague of mine was writing was supposed to showcase their upcomming new processor, but was deemed to be "too fast" on existing systems. He was told to make it slower, and less efficient - that way they would sell more of their new processors...