On 08/11/2009 04:42 AM, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 04:14 +1000, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>
>
>> 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 :-/
>
>
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
> /j
>
>
>
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