On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, consider the OS X startup progress bar, back when OS X had one: > originally it was very accurate, but by Tiger it had been changed to just > advance at a more or less constant rate regardless what was happening; the > boot process frequently would complete before the progress bar had gotten to > the end. Just some indication that something is happening is useful to the > user, even if it’s not completely accurate.
I thought I remembered hearing that it worked by timing the previous boot and using that to calculate the current boot progress. That's fairly similar to the line counting idea. -- arno s hautala /-| [email protected] pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
