System speed (was Re: Record locking)

[Kenneth Brody]

"Brian K. White" wrote:
[...]
> Nowadays, (at least in the windows world)  it seems like every new machine
> with specs that say it should run twice as fast as the last, actually runs
> slower than the last. It's not just windows either. Linux distro's all tend
> to install enough gnome or kde stuff in their default "desktop" installs to
> bog any machine down in the finest windows tradition. Even if you "clean out
> the crap" from your new factory windows install, or re-install fresh leaving
> out the crap, it's still never exactly "fast" just "not as slow".

Well, it does run twice as fast as the last.  But it's being asked to
run three times as much stuff.

:-)

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