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You say that like the decryption steps should be slow. The decryption is orders of magnitude faster than reading from the drive in the first place. And 10 seco
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
You say that like the decryption steps should be slow. The decryption is orders of magnitude faster than reading from the drive in the first place.
And 10 seconds is still nearly 1000 subjective years. A Commodore 64 boots faster than the CRT can warm up and, while certainly doing less in the process, does it with a 1Mhz processor. Which, for reference, is 3000 times slower than our single core 3Ghz example not even accounting for CPI=>IPC inversion.
Computers are ludicrously fast, but we've apparently worked hard as an industry to slow them down as much as possible even for the simplest of tasks.
- AshamedCaptain 6y agoSeriously, why would you complain about this these days? In 2012, I was _impressed as hell_ when the SSD MacBook Air would fully boot OSX in 1 minute 30 seconds, being used to computers taking minutes to start and then spending even more minutes being unusable with the HDD thrashing like hell. These days my Linux desktop computer boots in around 10 seconds (much faster than either Windows or macOS on similar hardware, but at least on windows the boot time improvements have been incredible too). My desktop literally boots in less time than it takes for my DP monitor to power on from zero and start displaying frames. This is the wrong year to complain about boot time. I remember being on an airplane with no wifi and a brand new MacBook Air and spent most of the time idly turning it off and on, since I was really impressed :) . And today that > 1 minute boot time I would consider crap.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago> Seriously, why would you complain about this these days? Because we have ludicrously fast computers, but they feel slow. I have an period appropriate XP laptop in my office and every time I have to pull it out and use it I'm momentarily shocked by how responsive it is compared to modern OSs. We should be better than this, but our industry sucks at its job and I'm kinda sick of it. > These days my Linux desktop computer boots in around 10 seconds [...] > My desktop literally boots in less time than it takes for my DP monitor to power on from zero and start displaying frames. Your monitor takes more than 10 seconds to power on, and you seriously don't think this is ridiculous? What the hell is it doing that could possible be taking that long?
- AshamedCaptain 6y agoYou claim that XP is snappy? Even on a 2020 machine VM, it still takes more time to boot that 10!
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoI've confused the argument here, because it is true that it does not have an impressive boot time. However, once booted it is significantly more responsive than any modern OS I've ever used.