Re: mac schmack

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From: Chris Nandor
Subject: Re: mac schmack
Date: 23:33 on 08 Sep 2003
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*

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