At 8/20/2004 04:43 AM, Jason Teagle wrote:
>I wasn't going to waste any time responding to Phil's comments since I'm >used to his attitude, but since Ehsan responded, I will now. > >> 1. It was *slow*. It was so slow to even start the app that made it >> irritating even for usual testing, let alone for using it for >> real jobs. It >> could've been me doing something silly, but I don't think so, >> since it took >> about at least 5 seconds to start a hello world app (I'm not exaggerating. >> Five real seconds for starting a hello world app!) And if I >> tried a GUI app >> with all the bells and whistles, a startup delay of between 10 and 20 >> seconds was quite expected. > >Boohoo. 10 seconds? When was the last time Word started up in under 10 >seconds on any machine with less then 2 Gb RAM? It's the operational speed >ONCE RUNNING that is important, not the startup time really. It's a small >price to pay for the privilege of not having to port (recompile) the code to >each platform every time you make a change.
I was not complaining about the startup times. They are negligible.
I was talking about processing times. Run a loop accessing each pixel in a 500MB image and you'll see that it is totally unusable for image processing.
Phil Daley < AutoDesk > http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley
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