On 08/10/2013 23:21, Tim Delaney wrote: > On 9 October 2013 09:10, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org > <mailto:guido at python.org>> wrote: > > It's not actually so much the extreme waste that I'm looking to > expose, but rather the day-to-day annoyances of stuff you use > regularly that slows you down by just a second (or ten), or things > that gets slower at each release. > > > Veering off-topic (but still related) ... > > There's a reason I turn off all animations when I set up a machine for > someone ... I've found turning off the animations is the quickest way to > make a machine feel faster - even better than adding an SSD. The number > of times I've fixed a "slow" machine by this one change ... > > I think everyone even remotely involved in the existence of animations > in the OS should be forced to have the slowest animations turned on at > all times, no matter the platform (OSX, Windows, Linux ...). Which comes > back to the idea of developers having slow machines so they feel the > pain ... > I remember one time when I was using a Mac. Although it was faster than another machine I was using, the GUI felt sluggish because instead of windows just appearing and disappearing they expanded and contracted, which, of course, took time; not much time, true, but enough to become annoying.
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