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

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:17:35PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 23:47:06 (+0000), David Cantrell wrote: ]
> > 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.

I doubt it.  It takes about the same on a G3-600 ibook.  True, I haven't
done any fiddling to optimise OS X, but I haven't done any fiddling to
slow it down either.

> > 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....

Are they?  It's a terminal.  If one type of terminal can open in a second
and another type of terminal in five seconds, then there's something very
wrong with the second type of terminal.

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