What is Digg?9 Comments
- nongeekboy, on 10/27/2008, -0/+8Great, objective article.
- 4DFX, on 10/27/2008, -0/+6Boot-time isn't that important though. I'd much rather wait 2 minutes longer for my system to load than to wait an extra few seconds every time I run a program.
- sirhomer, on 10/28/2008, -0/+3@weizbox
It's a limited resources type deal. Optimizing software in general can be time consuming. Maybe they are focusing on adding features and adding features can cause any given software application to consume more memory and CPU cycles.
In low level computer theory there is almost always a tradeoff on any given action, there never a perfect solution for all situations. That's why there is so many different in-use algorithms that may accomplish the same thing. Even for simple thing like sorting a list. The same principal holds true for higher level software engineering. - glinsvad, on 10/28/2008, -0/+3Because sometimes it's nice to concentrate on implementing and testing new features, rather than implementing, testing, optimizing and re-testing, etc.
- glinsvad, on 10/27/2008, -1/+4I seem to recall that the last lets-make-this-thing-fast release was around 7.04. Gutsy and Hardy introduced a bunch of new features, as did subsequent releases. The next "fast" release is slated for Jaunty, at least in terms of boot-time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ubuntu_rel ... - weizbox, on 10/28/2008, -0/+2'it's nice to '
Nice to eh? Why can't they do both at the same time? I have to do that all the time at work with time-critical software that needs additional features. Just gotta keep running benchmarks along the way. I could understand some minor changes here and there.. but in some cases for this example, we're talking 20-50% increase, which is massive. - weizbox, on 10/27/2008, -1/+3lol.. so your saying they have 'fast' and 'slow' releases?
Why not just make all of them fast...? :) - fatfishy, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1Thats Suprising 20-50% decrease in speed. I vaguely remember reading that new versions of gcc were slower but thats a big reduction in encoding. makes me want to switch to arch linux
- weizbox, on 10/28/2008, -1/+1no suprise this info got buried by all the Ubuntu fanboys :/
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