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The calculator in Windows 11 still takes several seconds to load for me.
by someguyiguess 4mo ago
The calculator in Windows 11 still takes several seconds to load for me.
- bel8 4mo agoInstant for me but I have a beefy CPU Ryzen 9800X3D and some crazy nvme. And most important: no corporate spyware disguised as anti-virus, in this machine.
- Joe_Cool 4mo agoProbably a cache thing. Win11 precaches a lot of stuff if you hover over it or have excess RAM. It's not as smart as SuperFetch and ReadyBoost (with an HDD) was but it's still doing similar things.
- kalleboo 4mo agoHow big is the calculator app on Windows 11 that you need to cache it in RAM? On macOS, the calculator app is 6 MB. And that's containing both x64 and ARM code. How long does it take a modern SSD (6 GB/s?) to read that?
- Joe_Cool 4mo agoIf it's the same as on Win10 it's a UWP App that needs a ton of dependencies like .net, WinUI2/XAML. The appx is: Approximate size 21.8 MB according to https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfhvn5 https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfhvn5 Win7 calc.exe had 758KB for i686 and 897KB for amd64.
- kalleboo 4mo agoReminds me of the early days of MacOS X when the Calculator app was written in Java as a demo of how fantastic and native their Java integration with Cocoa bindings was. This of course made it horribly slow to launch since initializing the JVM back then was a massive chore.
- jen20 4mo agoYou shouldn't need to cache a calculator app to make it load quickly - it opened instantly on a machine running Windows 3.0 with 2MB RAM.
- projektfu 4mo agoIt seems that some Windows computers are generally laggy with no good reason. I could recommend installing Old Calculator. https://winaero.com/get-calculator-from-windows-8-and-windows-7-in-windows-10/ https://winaero.com/get-calculator-from-windows-8-and-window... It was a little difficult setting it up so that the calculator key on the keyboard pulls it up but aside from that it works well.