Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 10-03-2012 19:54, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 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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Personally I'm all for OS X; it's a good UI on top of a Unix shell - 
what's not to love?

But I don't intend to start an OS war or anything here... :P

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- Alex