linuxaddict

I thought more eyes on the source means that OSS is impenetrable. Guess not.

So a bunch of non-important people quit? Big deal.

Yes, they would be motivated to write optimized code rather than a bunch of crap. Their productivity may suffer, unless their tools were also optimized to run on these slower devices.

I normally write (or test) code in a virtual machine on an older system to make sure I force myself to think about impact to performance.