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On 08/11/2009 04:42 AM, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 04:14 +1000, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
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<pre wrap="">As a comparison on my 64 bit version of Gnome I find the default theme
to be very responsive...
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As a comparison, the machine I have today is the equivalent of a Cray2 -
the most outrageous 200KW 'supercomputer' of the time when (the quite
responsive) Atari/Amiga were the bread and butter machines for
audio/video hackers.
Spending that much clockcycles on screen redraws of bland widgets just
ain't sane anymore. Ohh, and I forgot: I even have a graphics card on
top with computational power exceeding that of the Cray2 by a factor of
four ... Still feels like my Linux desktop will be forever stuck on pear
with that of a Spectrum-48 :-/
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Isn't this Sergey's Law? <br>
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i.e. The faster the hardware becomes, the slower the software
performs... <br>
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I think he has tried to start a movement against this unwritten law of
computing. I can't recall the name right now though.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
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<pre wrap="">/j
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