On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:22 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 08/10/2013 23:21, Tim Delaney wrote: > >> On 9 October 2013 09:10, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org >> <mailto:gu...@python.org>> wrote: >> >> It's not actually so much the extreme waste that I'm looking to >> expose, but rather the day-to-day annoyances of stuff you use >> regularly that slows you down by just a second (or ten), or things >> that gets slower at each release. >> >> >> Veering off-topic (but still related) ... >> >> There's a reason I turn off all animations when I set up a machine for >> someone ... I've found turning off the animations is the quickest way to >> make a machine feel faster - even better than adding an SSD. The number >> of times I've fixed a "slow" machine by this one change ... >> >> I think everyone even remotely involved in the existence of animations >> in the OS should be forced to have the slowest animations turned on at >> all times, no matter the platform (OSX, Windows, Linux ...). Which comes >> back to the idea of developers having slow machines so they feel the >> pain ... >> >> I remember one time when I was using a Mac. Although it was faster than > another machine I was using, the GUI felt sluggish because instead of > windows just appearing and disappearing they expanded and contracted, > which, of course, took time; not much time, true, but enough to become > annoying. Try holding shift and minimizing/restoring Finder in OS X ;). Nam
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