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>There's usually no noticeable difference for a user whether the dialog they opened via a button click is built in highly optimized C++ or from an XML resource
by qekbg 7y ago
>There's usually no noticeable difference for a user whether the dialog they opened via a button click is built in highly optimized C++ or from an XML resource stream that is read, parsed, and the UI constructed on the fly by effectively interpreting the UI description.
I dare you to compare the speed of UIs of Windows XP and Windows 10, even when using the hardware that was current when those OSes were released.
- hedora 7y agoSomeone did a detailed study of UI responsiveness vs year. Responsiveness peaked in the 80’s, in the dumb terminal + regional mainframe era. :-(
- badsectoracula 7y agoDo you have a link? If it is the one i remember it was about keyboard-to-output responsiveness (and the winner was something like a C64 or Apple 2 or something like that), not overall UI (and i'm a bit skeptical about the dumb terminal part considering the communication latencies involved, especially in the 80s).