begin quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 01:15:56PM -0500: [snip] > Funny- the number one complaint I hear from anyone who uses computers is > how slow the apps are. Specifically loading and processor intensive parts > (not so much the sit around waiting for a keyboard press parts). You must
Hm. My biggest complaint is lack of UI responsiveness. When I'm loading an application, I do not want the rest of the system to momentarily pause; when I save something from an application, I do not want the app to be non-responsive while it's writing to disk; when I format a disk, I do not want the mouse pointer to move in fits and starts... I don't care so much about loading time... so long as I receive reasonable feedback that the program is, indeed, loading. If you hear from people that they don't care so much about the UI responsiveness, but _do_ care about absolute loading times and processor-intensive task, then I am entirely in a different domain that the sorts of people you hear from. (Not suprising, really...) Where do we see performance issues, anyway? UI responsiveness. Program loading. Program processing. IO throughput. What else? Can we nail down all the bits of percieved performance? > know a lot of people running old versions of software on very new PCs, > because anyone on slightly older PCs (2-3 years old) or running the most > recent version of apps bitch like crazy about performance. Do they also demand that NP-complete problems be solved in constant time? (I actually heard this once floated as a requirement for a program. Many years ago, thank goodness.) > For myself- I've never had a problem with processor specific stuff. > Granted, I don't own a PowerPC, Alpha, etc. But I know I'd be utterly > unwilling to give up the rperformance to have everything in some byte code > and interpreted. So nothing ever is "fast enough" for you? :) Computers got "fast enough" for me a long time ago. Of course, with the way things are going, I'm going to have to chase the bleeding edge, else I'll once again be able to type faster than my word-processing application.... -Stewart "We need QWERTY to slow down typists, again, right?" Stremler
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