Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time

[Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:15:12AM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 16:07 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Currently Linux performance loading large binaries is at least
> > perceptually worse than Windows (some of that is perceptual tricks
> > windows apps pull, some of it real). 
> 
> Would you care to elaborate on this statement?  It's not clear to me how
> perception could differ from reality in this case.  If it seems faster
> doesn't that mean it is faster?

You can have a window opened without being ready to accept input yet
for instance.  XEmacs does that[1] when it opens its window before
parsing the user's configuration which can load a number of things and
hence take a while to run.  "Ok I'm going to open your application"
animations allow to win some perceptual time too.

Humans are fundamentally easy to fool for 1-2 seconds as long as they
have feedback.  Longer gets harder :-)

  OG.

[1] For technical reasons, not perceptual.
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