On Wednesday 26 February 2003 17:32, you wrote: > What "looks" to be running faster is just a false impression. M$ > pre-loads many of the libs, and the core of some programs at boot/login > time. So when you double click on IE (for example), yes, it hits the > screen much faster than Mozilla on Linux. But it's already half loaded. > This is at the expense of the ram needed to run applications. > > But then M$ works under the philosophy that Ram & disks are cheap. Just > add more. Yep I've heard that before. But then explain why Linux generally tend to be more memory-hungry? Its my impression that Windows perfomance relies more on processor speed, while Linux on memory.
Wahur
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