> That said, I think it's significantly faster on Windows 7 than XP. But of course, I love XP, and have no reason to upgrade.
I've noticed it as well, particularly on VM's. I think it's to do with the way Windows 7 manages memory which means less disk I/O. We've also noticed that VS2010 crashes a hell of a lot less and the designers are a bit more stable. Even when it does attempt to crash it seems to save itself pretty well - normally an exception dialog appears, click ok and the IDE is still running and working fine, WOHOO no IDE reboot!!! Regards, Michael Lyons -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of silky Sent: Friday, 19 March 2010 5:32 PM To: Jonathan Parker Cc: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Developer apathy... On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Jonathan Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey if it gets slower it means more time talking about meaningless stuff > here while our code compiles. > > That's gotta be good right? Hah :P Have to say, there is nothing more frustrating than a slow compilation ..., not that I'm doing much compiling at all these days. > The way I see it the development of VS is partly about keeping the > developers on the VS team interested thus the move to rewrite it in WPF even > if it makes it slower. Exactly; that's a bit too an extreme case of "dogfooding". I mean lets not get obsessed about it; all VS needs to do is run fast and pop up hints. Maybe a few other things. I don't see why each iteration should result in a slower version. That said, I think it's significantly faster on Windows 7 than XP. But of course, I love XP, and have no reason to upgrade. -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
