On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I wish it was less >> than 50 milliseconds (0.05 seconds) including running hg, which is the >> common threshold for "instant". > > "Instant" for me is "the blink of an eye," which Wikipedia reports as > typically between 100ms and 400ms. > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink> If you blink, you've missed > Python 2.7 startup on a relatively modern machine. >
400ms feels glitchy. 100ms is the absolute maximum for immediate interaction. If I can sense a musical beat between doing something and seeing its result, it's not instant. And if there's a comedic beat between them, it's... laughably slow. *dives for cover* ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
