jesus X wrote:
>
> I frequently see people with 200 MHz Pentiums (and even the occasional 486)
> complain about Mozilla (among other apps) running slowly on their machine.
> Ditto with people who have 16 or 32 megs of RAM. I don't mean to offend, but
> expecting modern apps to run on hardware that is 5 years old is unreasonable.
By the way, keeping performance reasonable and memory usage low doesn't
only help people on low-end machines. It also helps those of us (MANY of
us, I'm sure, in this developer-oriented group) who multitask heavily
and tend to have (eg) several terminal windows, Mozilla, an MP3 player
and a bunch of other applications open at once. Even a good
consumer-level machine (eg 600MHz, 64 or 128Mb RAM) would struggle in
that situation with Mozilla as it is now. What about the web developer
who wants to test his pages on NS3, NS4, Mozilla, and IE? What about the
person who chooses to use Outlook for mail, and also has Word and Excel
open, while browsing with Moz?
Keeping memory usage and working set low is NOT just an issue for people
with old machines.
Stuart.
