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The parallel LWN thread: http://lwn.net/Articles/351058/ http://lwn.net/Articles/351058/

• nitrogen 17y ago
  A lot of discussion on LWN and on the LKML seems to focus on the "unbenchmarkability" of UI interactiveness. This is just a guess, but maybe Con's background as an anesthesiologist (rather than a programmer) causes him to understand feelings better than measurements. If I were to assign blame for the latency problems I experience, I would place it on the 100-call-deep stacks that are used to deliver events in Gtk+ and Qt, and on the binary Nvidia driver's lack of good 2D+compositing acceleration.
  • rbanffy 17y ago
    "Con's background as an anesthesiologist (rather than a programmer) causes him to understand feelings better than measurements" I would be pretty worried with an anesthesiologist that disregarded his measurements... Either you can measure or it doesn't exist. If it exists and you don't measure, you'd better write something to measure it.
  • jacquesm 17y ago
    If there is ONE job where your ability to measure means the difference between life and death than it is being an anesthesiologist.