Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: more junk about the A3000UX Message-ID: <1991Feb17.133026.12267@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 17 Feb 91 13:30:26 GMT References: <1519@pdxgate.UUCP> <8651@gollum.twg.com> <12268@helios.TAMU.EDU> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 22 In article <12268@helios.TAMU.EDU> dlb5404@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes: > At my last co-op assignment, the quickest 'fix' for > bad system performance (on a UNIX box) was 'install another 8 MB of > RAM'. This was usually faster and cheaper than re-writing whatever > application was inefficient. Well, except that fixing the application would have improved the performance of every system that used it simultaneously. Even with a relatively low installed base of X systems compared to PCs I think it'd be worth it to fix the GUIs. I had a nightmare last night in which I was prototyping an application using X, a fancy UI toolkit, a prototyping tool, something like Oracle, Amoeba, and so on. It took 666 Megs of VM to run, and all it did was pop up 4 windows and let you select displays in one by clicking hot-points on another. And the customer was *happy*. They wanted to buy the prototype! (666 Megs of VM. Musta been a side-effect of Telepathic Control Protocol) -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .