GitHub Finally Fixes Large PR Performance, and the "Normal CEO" Moment
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AgwE_4_slM
- Original title: Finally a Normal CEO
Prime reacts to GitHub finally addressing a years-long performance problem where reviewing pull requests larger than ~1000 lines would melt your browser. He's happy it's fixed but irritated that the company acted as though the limitation was minor, when in practice large PRs were effectively impossible to review. Only a partial caption fragment was available, so the remainder of the discussion (including the "normal CEO" framing teased in the title) could not be fully captured.
Notes
- GitHub's large-PR slowdown has been a multi-year issue: looking at a PR over a thousand lines was nearly impossible without the browser melting.
- Prime is glad it's finally being addressed but annoyed at framing that downplays how broken it was.
- The "big three" fixes highlighted include reducing React components rendered per line from eight down to two.
- (Transcript unavailable beyond the opening segment; the title's "Finally a Normal CEO" angle is not covered by the captured captions.)