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> Between SSDs, blazing faster home DSL internet, and multicore processors, using a computer is much faster than it's ever been before. How much faster? Our ha
by troupo 3y ago
> Between SSDs, blazing faster home DSL internet, and multicore processors, using a computer is much faster than it's ever been before.
How much faster? Our hardware is several orders of magnitude faster than 20-30 years ago. And yet it takes multiple seconds to start even the simplest app doing nothing, and don't get me started on more complex software
- crazygringo 3y ago> And yet it takes multiple seconds to start even the simplest app doing nothing This is what I don't get when people say. On my MacBook, I just launched TextEdit. The entire "launch" time is basically taken up by a window zoom effect that is maybe half a second. I just put chrome://restart into my browser bar, and Chrome quit and fully relaunched in about three quarters of a second. (And then obviously it takes more time to load the tab contents.) Double-clicking on a multi-page, 2 MB PDF takes about two-thirds of a second to open Preview and render. As far as I'm concerned, everything's lightning fast. There's absolute no "taking multiple seconds", whether it's a simple text editor or an entire web browser.
- troupo 3y agoMacs are now crazy fast due to insane advances in their CPU. On intel macs you could definitely feel the slowdown of all software. I mean, they advertised "instant wake up from sleep" as a feature... That Macs had in 2008. I have a Windows machine that starts from NVMe. It takes a full minute for it to start a handful of startup apps, also in NVme: Firefox, Steam, 1password. What is it doing?
- Gigachad 3y agoI just clicked around on some apps on my iPhone 13 that I haven’t used in ages and they all opened in under 1 second. It looks like they basically open instantly but some make a network request to load the first page.