[andrewmcwatters]

My question is, where are all these "big companies" who can throw more processor power at these problems? Because frankly, every major company I've been at uses the same commodity or cloud hardware everyone else does, so I just don't see it. It's a moot point.

Rarely do I see workstation-grade hardware in the wild, and when I have, they're build slaves that are incredibly anti-agile.

[mattnewport]

EA I know gives developers very powerful workstation class developer machines because I used to work there and have friends who still do and if anything it sounds like they've got even more powerful on a relative basis since I left.