Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:34:38 +0100 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time |
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On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:15:12AM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 16:07 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Currently Linux performance loading large binaries is at least > > perceptually worse than Windows (some of that is perceptual tricks > > windows apps pull, some of it real). > > Would you care to elaborate on this statement? It's not clear to me how > perception could differ from reality in this case. If it seems faster > doesn't that mean it is faster?
You can have a window opened without being ready to accept input yet for instance. XEmacs does that[1] when it opens its window before parsing the user's configuration which can load a number of things and hence take a while to run. "Ok I'm going to open your application" animations allow to win some perceptual time too.
Humans are fundamentally easy to fool for 1-2 seconds as long as they have feedback. Longer gets harder :-)
OG.
[1] For technical reasons, not perceptual. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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