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At 17:22 -0500 2003.09.08, Peter da Silva wrote: >What I'm getting at is this like the graphics, or memory protection, or >VM, or concurrent multitasking, where it makes a big difference... or is >it a few percent and in an area where it's not going to make a difference, >or where the difference is actually irrelevant because OS X uses other >more efficient mechanisms that avoids the bottleneck completely? No, the bottleneck is not avoided, but the percentage difference is at worst just a few, and you would need to do it thousands of times to notice, where most of the time you're just sending a handful of events. >> >I occasionally see "significant system slowdown" in OS X myself. I've come >> >to an accomodation with it... but in terms of accomodation this is like >> >comparing a sore finger with multiple amputations. > >> No. You keep talking about Mac OS as though extension conflicts and >> running a lot of background junk is how it was meant to be. > >Why shouldn't you be able to "run a lot of background junk"? Why should you have a third arm? >> Except not. You were describing behaviors and saying they happened to me, >> that I was saying it didn't in order to save face. > >I did no such thing. I said that the people who deny these problems exist >at all must have some such motivation. No, you didn't. This is what was said: >> When you are browsing the web or reading email, it simply didn't matter. > >Like hell it didn't. The only reason it didn't was because someone spent a >grand or two on their Mac and they'd lose face if they admitted even to >themselves that under the covers the emperor had no clothes. No, these "problems" *actually, simply, didn't matter*. >And, oh, here's something that I'm absolutely sure happened to you. >It just happened to me. I was just using the Finder, and I wanted >to clean up my desktop. So, I selected some files, and moved them >to the trash. Then I inserted a CD, and opened a folder, moved some >files around, copied a file from the CD, and ejected it. Then I >emptied the trash. > >On Mac OS, several times the Finder stopped responding while it >deleted files, copied files, detected and displayed the CD, emptied >the trash, and ejected the CD. On Mac OS X most if not all of those >pauses, which added about a minute and a half to the whole process, >didn't happen. My Mac OS computer experienced no such pauses running Mac OS, except for when it was broken or wasn't being maintained properly (IOW, I haven't had such problems on Mac OS in many years). *shrug* -- Chris Nandor pudge@xxxxx.xxx http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network pudge@xxxx.xxx http://osdn.com/There's stuff above here
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