On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 08:04:06 -0400 esteemed RV did hold forth thusly:
> if te product is never
> released in an official way, then lots and lots of people will never try
> it, much less adopt it.
A 1.0 release will cause a bunch of people to try it. But if the 1.0 release
has memory usage and performance characteristics similar to that of v0.9.2
then the vast bulk of those people who try it will not keep using it. So the
about of a major release to attract new users will have been wasted on a
premature release.
I have to periodically shut down Moz because it swells up too big in virtual
memory usage. Currently I have 38 windows open in Opera and its using 28
Megs. I just went and opened 18 (half as many) windows in Moz build
2001071203 and it is now using 76 Megs. Closing all but one of the windows
brings mem usage down to 42 meg. Since Moz started up using 17 meg it looks
like it has some serious memory leakage problems.
I know Moz about as well as I know IE and Opera and I find myself using IE
and Opera when I'm in a hurry because Moz is too slow and I get impatient. I
think a large number of end users will have the same reaction. By running
trials with end users we will be able to find out if this is the case.
