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I totally agree the example I posted is ridiculous. Let me explain why I did it. I was a hackintosh user for years. I got an old lenovo from 2007 with an intel
by blkhp19 12y ago
I totally agree the example I posted is ridiculous. Let me explain why I did it.
I was a hackintosh user for years. I got an old lenovo from 2007 with an intel core 2 duo and thought it would be fun to install OS X Tiger on it. Install went smoothly except the intel integrated graphics wasn't supported.
I decided to check out System Preferences to see how much had changed in all these years. I immediately noticed this perfectly smooth animation between panels. I couldn't believe it was so slow - and with no graphics driver! So I tried it on my rMBP and it was incredibly laggy. I just quickly recorded it with my phone and thought I'd show just one small part of OS X that really represents a much bigger picture of UI performance regressions.
- kenferry 12y agoHm, I don't think this is a good example if the point is to talk about general graphics slowness, because the slowness here is not due to generic graphics issues. This is slow because each pane is running in its own process and it's doing some complicated cross-process graphics stuff to get all the drawing into the same window. This changed in… maybe Lion?
- JohnBooty 12y agoIf you ever get the itch, I'd love to see follow-up posts with examples that are more system-wide in nature!