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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