2006-02-14 (火) の 14:05 -0600 に Mike McCarty さんは書きました: > As far as starting a new window or app, Linux is noticeably > slower than WinXP on my machine. Uhm, Linux is doing a lot more in the background than your WinXP machine? Fifteen, twenty years ago, people used to complain about how slow Macs were compared to DOS boxes. I guess people didn't understand that an environment in which a mouse could be accurately tracked requires processor time and a little extra RAM and such. (Just like a lot of the other things the Mac did that people didn't notice until MSW95 got sort of close to being able to almost do the same things.) Java is difficult to flatten to native code because the VM does a lot of watching the byte-codes to keep them in line. Linux maintains an _almost_ proper separation between userland and the OS world, and that does take processor time and other resources. I really think it must be the full moon out tonight.
