Breaking backwards compatiblity

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 07:44:10PM +0100, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> On 10-03-2012 18:58, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 06:49:02PM +0100, so wrote:
[...]
> >>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. ;)

But if I wanted eye candy, I'd be using Windows in the first place. :-)


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