| ??? 03/26/10 20:20 Read: times |
#174539 - State of mind Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Erik Malund said:
outlaw hasta la Vista, you need twice as much (hardware) power to match the speed of XP. A lot of hw manufacturers have come a long way with dynamically adjusting hardware. But you are correct - kicking out Microsoft would save this world a huge amount of power. But don't look too much just at the OS. Look at the development tools and the "best practices" that Microsoft is guilty of. We have a world of developers that are sending out huge and slow programs, well knowing that within 2-3 years, the same program will be fast and frugal with resources compared to the even newer softwares released. And at the same time, the computer owners are regularly required to buy new and faster hardware just to be able to run Word, Excel, IE and similar. Isn't it strange that a 90MHz Pentium 90 can still manage quite well, when booted and used with the then-current applications? Today, hardly anything can be done without sending all video output through the pipelines of the 3D graphcis cards. Windows have transparent windows as default, just so you will be able to see what hides below the title bar of the application. Every opening/closing/... has to be accompanied with an animation, since 10 year old computers was fast enough to "instantly" open a new window. The garbage collect algorithms gets better and better, but when programs changes from allocating hundreds of kB of data to running through hundreds of MB, the garbage collector gets huge amounts of work to do. why is everybody on the butt of Dell etc and nobody on the butt of microsoft in this respect? We are. It isn't the computer manufacturers fault that they have to constantly ship faster machines just to solve the slowdown from newer generations of software. New and faster machines are great for solving new and more complex problems. But it seems a waste that they are also needed just to be able to browse a web page. PS: do not say Linux, a previous thread revealed that it is worse in this respect. I haven't seen any direct problems with Linux. For many years, I used a 25MHz 486 machine for firewall, mail, database, web, ... I currently have a couple of Intel Atom machines running Linux. With correct tools, it's even possible to use a 20W machine as workstation for software development. The important point is to avoid Java-based applications. Since a lot of power is spent in fighting the idiots that think it is fun to spam-worm-infect-... your computer should they, when caught (unfortunately not often enough), be tried for environmetal crimes? I would suggest that designers who thinks Flash is "the coolest" for all web pages are caught and punished at the same time. How funny is it to have a huge machine run at 100% CPU load because it is trying to play 200 flash animations concurrently in the different browser tabs? And how often have the little fools managed to do something wrong with their flash, resulting in the code locking up and really, really start to consume processing power? |
