Mark-Jason Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> "The new version must be better because our gazillion dollar marketing
>> campaign said so. (We didn't really *fix* anything.)
>
>The part I found interesting was the part about elimination of the message.
printing messages can be surprisingly slow - if they go to
unbuffered stderr which is an X window of some kind they can end up
waiting for an ACK from the X server, which may have to wait for
blanking and a move of a mega-pixel or two to do a scroll.
>
>Perceived slowness is also important.
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Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.
