On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 07:44:10PM +0100, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > On 10-03-2012 18:58, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 06:49:02PM +0100, so wrote: [...] > >>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. > > This. On the other hand, OS X has all the eye candy and is still > extremely responsive. ;)
But if I wanted eye candy, I'd be using Windows in the first place. :-) T -- They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work. -- Russian saying