10 Aug
2009
10 Aug
'09
4:47 p.m.
On 08/11/2009 04:42 AM, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 04:14 +1000, Patrick Shirkey
wrote:
Isn't this Sergey's Law?
i.e. The faster the hardware becomes, the slower the software performs...
I think he has tried to start a movement against this unwritten law of
computing. I can't recall the name right now though.
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
As a comparison on my 64 bit version of Gnome I
find the default theme
to be very responsive...
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 :-/
/j