[geeks] Hmmm.. food for thought...

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:47:06 (+0000), David Cantrell wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Hmmm.. food for thought...
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:32:36PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > > > I love my Mac; I just wish they'd rewrite Terminal.app ...
> > > Not to mention that it seems to take forever to load...
> > hmmm... it just pops right up on any system I've seen it used on -- less
> > than two seconds for sure, even right after a cold boot.
> 
> If it's already running, then yes, another pops open for me straight away.
> But if I *quit* it, then start it up, it takes five seconds.  That's
> unacceptable for something that damned well should be in memory already.
> 
> That's on a G4-450.

I don't know what exactly the new ibook CPU is, but IIRC it's not quite
as powerful as a G4-450.  I've seen a terminal window open in less than
two seconds on an ibook, right after a cold boot.  Something's very wrong
with your install.

> For comparison, my x86 box (P3-600) takes well under a second to launch
> an xterm when that is also already in memory, and running X on X, the
> G4-450 can start an xterm in about a second.

xterm's are entirely different critters....  apples and oranges....

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