Eli Zaretskii <eliz@xxxxxxx> writes: >> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:29:41 +0100 (BST) >> From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> >> >> On Linux, I would have hit Control-C already. Such an operation >> typically takes less than 0.1 seconds. > > We were not comparing Linux with Windows, we were talking about > Windows user experience. On Windows 4 seconds is not too long. If it is accompanied by some animation of papers winging across the screen or a progress bar or similar. Otherwise people might think that Windows crashed and reboot. Anyway, the problem is that 4 seconds for 32K files means 40 seconds (at least) for 320K files. At some point of time, things become really unpleasant. -- David Kastrup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
