Clancy wrote: > One could reasonably hope that the same could be said for every part of the programming > chain, but it is one of the ironies of modern computing that computers get faster and > faster, memory gets cheaper and cheaper, programming appears to get simpler and simpler, > yet the programs get slower and slower. I have a fairly modern (maybe 2yo) computer, and > use XP professional 5.1. Not long ago I switched to Office 2007 12.0, and when I did so I > was appalled to discover that if I had a document loaded into Word, and hit Ctrl A, I > could watch the highlighting scroll down the screen! > > As a former assembly language programmer I have some idea of the vast amount of thumb > twiddling which is going on behind-the-scenes when I make some apparently simple request > like the one to get my phone number. Undoubtedly most of this occurs in the murky depths > of the operating system, but if there were any simple way to avoid adding to it > unnecessarily it would be nice to know about it. > > I would venture to say that it's Microsoft Software that is slower with every release. PHP, Apache, MySQL, and Linux always improve their newer builds for speed whenever possible. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
