VS + Resharper is painfully slow. Rider is refreshingly fast.

jonathanlydall · on Oct 24, 2024

I recently upgraded my laptop and finally VS with Resharper is blazingly fast.

My old laptop was a an 8th gen i7 with SSD and 32GB of RAM.

New one is a 13th gen i7 with an NVMe and 64GB of RAM.

I suspect the biggest difference is the NVMe. It probably also helps that I’m using Windows 11’s Dev Drive where I’ve enabled all the policies mentioned in their docs to minimise the impact of Windows Defender.

And finally, so much RAM means Windows gets to keep a lot of my working files cached.

adra · on Oct 25, 2024

Certainly any poorly configure av scanners will turn even the best computers into a heaping pile of garbage. A lot of people abandoned windows development not because the platforms were bad, but because corporate av policy was always scan everything and the performance became unbelievably slow. Now, it's so extreme, you can't enev get a windows (or shocked, Linux) requisition in so many dev shops.