On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dne 11.7.2017 v 23:17 Solomon Peachy napsal(a): >> >> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:55:25PM +0200, Michal Schorm wrote: >>> >>> He won't install it on his home desktop PC or work laptop. He rather find >>> an old dusty laptop from 2005 in his shed and starts to learn there. >> >> >> If we're being honest, a typical 2005-era laptop is going to yield a >> rather lousy experience with any modern Linux Desktop. (And an even >> lousier experience with modern Windows!) >> >> > > > The question is - why - certainly not because CPU got less powerfull that > it's been 10-12 years back - but when gnome clock needs 30MB, > and rendering of html pages often takes over 100MB - and nobody cares about > any performance regression since new shiny i7 is so fast to 'mask' all > programmers faults and 32GB or RAM also needs some usage.... A consequence of Moore's law, and deflationary pressure on computer technology. As that's changing, there's increasing pressure on code optimization to get performance advances. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
