Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 10-03-2012 18:58, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 06:49:02PM +0100, so wrote:
>> On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 16:22:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> [...]
>>> As for Win95 being unable to keep up with mouse movement... well, to
>>> be honest I hated Win95 so much that 90% of the time I was in the DOS
>>> prompt anyway, so I didn't even notice this. If it were truly a
>>> problem, it's probably a sign of poor hardware interrupt handling
>>> (interrupt handler is taking too long to process events). But I
>>> haven't seen this myself either.
>>
>> Design of input handling, the theoretical part is irrelevant. I was
>> solely talking about how they do it in practice. OSs are simply
>> unresponsive and in linux it is more severe. If i am having this issue
>> in practice it doesn't matter if it was the GC lock or an another
>> failure to handle input.
>
> Then you must be running a very different Linux from the one I use. In
> my experience, it's Windows that's an order of magnitude less responsive
> due to constant HD thrashing (esp. on bootup, and then periodically
> thereafter) and too much eye-candy.

This. On the other hand, OS X has all the eye candy and is still 
extremely responsive. ;)

>
> (Then again, I don't use graphics-heavy UIs... on Linux you can turn
> most of it off, and I do, but on Windows you have no choice. So perhaps
> it's more a measure of how I configured my system than anything else. I
> tried doing this in Windows once, and let's just say that I'll never,
> ever, even _dream_ of attempting it again, it was that painful.)
>
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> T
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- Alex