On Thursday 18 June 2009 00:52, Cathey, Jim wrote: > Though systems are a lot faster now the loads put upon them > are also a lot heavier. Much like > the constancy of human behavior, the delays in systems tend to > hover at about what we will tolerate. Twenty years ago's ten-second > delay is still today's ten-second delay. Unless it's twenty. > Or five. Never 0.01, which is what it would be based on clock > rates.
My guess is that performance bugs are only fixed when they are painful enough. Example. KMail's abysmal performance on big mail folders is not fixed yet only because it is tolerable on 2 GHz+ machines. Five years ago, it would be a must to fix it. today, KMail devels can procrastinate. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
