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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