On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:16:10PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: >On Wednesday 17 June 2009 20:29:07 Denys Vlasenko wrote: >> 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. > >Ha.
easy enough to fix. apt-get remove --purge kde && apt-get install mutt && \ echo 'set header_cache=~/.Mutt_headers' >> ~/.muttrc > >> Five years ago, it would be a must to fix it. today, KMail devels >> can procrastinate. I can't imagine to run anything KDE on a 100MHz machine anyway. Such a box works nicely with (or without) X, a sensible WM like blackbox or related descendants, rxvt or ggiterm, mutt and links/lynx/dillo etc. It's faster to reinstall such a box from scratch with a sane system than to wait for KDE to bootup to the desktop _once_ anyway. Using or complaining about KDE is just doctor-it-hurts-when-i.. syndrome :P _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
