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There's no excuse for 2 seconds. Machines are a thousand times as fast as in the 90s, and a text editor didn't take any 2000 seconds, or even 2 seconds, back th
by ncmncm 4y ago
There's no excuse for 2 seconds.
Machines are a thousand times as fast as in the 90s, and a text editor didn't take any 2000 seconds, or even 2 seconds, back then.
Now they load up the monstrous libraries they need to negotiate a way to communicate with the desktop, and then negotiate that. A screen buffer is so yesterday, so I guess they have a scene graph now that some library renders whenever a pixel might have changed, triple-buffered to prevent artifacts.
- rayiner 4y agoMacOS X introduced a fully buffered desktop to prevent artifacts 21 years ago. It was a bit pokey on a 500 MHz G4 but still faster than today’s apps.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- flenserboy 4y agoIt's probably time to start all over. Chuck compatibility for usability — no more POSIX & friends, for instance, along with the rush to compile everything on anything new, with all the cruft those efforts inject into a system. Let the new thing be the new thing for a while. As much as I like what I can do with a modern system, I've found myself longing more than once of late for an 80x24 text display with instant responses from the system.