The most depressing hallmark of computing backslide is visible repaint. I remember when computers got fast enough that you no longer saw intermediate draw results. Then, browsers happened, and web apps, and now all you see, all day, every day, is stutter and repaint.
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And as my recent tweet stream about 100ms 1gb page provisioning on Windows points out, even if you are an excellent software developer who does a great job writing your program, the OS will probably intervene and make your startup time slow despite your best efforts :(
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This reminds me of that story of a bungled attempt at redacting a PDF by placing black-boxes on top of text. Then someone opened the PDF on a slow PC, and the unredacted text sat there, before getting painted over with black.
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Are you sure those are not UI animations put there on purpose? It is a Mac we are talking about after all
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Beach ball renders faster, and smoother.
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