On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 06:49:02PM +0100, so wrote: > On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 16:22:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: [...] > >As for Win95 being unable to keep up with mouse movement... well, to > >be honest I hated Win95 so much that 90% of the time I was in the DOS > >prompt anyway, so I didn't even notice this. If it were truly a > >problem, it's probably a sign of poor hardware interrupt handling > >(interrupt handler is taking too long to process events). But I > >haven't seen this myself either. > > Design of input handling, the theoretical part is irrelevant. I was > solely talking about how they do it in practice. OSs are simply > unresponsive and in linux it is more severe. If i am having this issue > in practice it doesn't matter if it was the GC lock or an another > failure to handle input.
Then you must be running a very different Linux from the one I use. In my experience, it's Windows that's an order of magnitude less responsive due to constant HD thrashing (esp. on bootup, and then periodically thereafter) and too much eye-candy. (Then again, I don't use graphics-heavy UIs... on Linux you can turn most of it off, and I do, but on Windows you have no choice. So perhaps it's more a measure of how I configured my system than anything else. I tried doing this in Windows once, and let's just say that I'll never, ever, even _dream_ of attempting it again, it was that painful.) T -- I'm still trying to find a pun for "punishment"...