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My Amiga A1200 (Only have extra RAM) feels faster and more responsive that any modern computer with Windows or GNU/Linux desktop.
This is also why picking a good monitor is important for software development. Some monitors have tons of input lag (60-70ms) and that's the time it takes for you to see what you're typing to reach the display. This also includes the time it takes to see you move your mouse cursor too. I did a huge write up on picking a good monitor for development which can be found at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-to-pick-a-g…
I have the same monitor and it's pretty good. The only thing I don't quite like is the pixel size, it's a bit small for native scaling. I kind of wish i had gone for the 27". I went with two 25" because two 27" were a bit too big for me.
This is also why picking a good monitor is important for software development. Some monitors have tons of input lag (60-70ms) and that's the time it takes for you to see what you're typing to reach the display. This also includes the time it takes to see you move your mouse cursor too. I did a huge write up on picking a good monitor for development which can be found at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-to-pick-a-g…
The data speaks for itself but I'm trying to perceive any latency in my Firefox (win10) and unable to. Typing seems instantaneous to me. I hate the milliseconds the start menu takes to animate though. Win7 start was instant.
I do recall playing World of Tanks with a 800ms Ping. After about 3 months or so I was back to thinking there was no Ping until a problem with my ISP was fixed and I dropped to 8ms. After which I ran into walls a lot.
The brain can adapt to such things rather well, given enough time.
Firefox's servo engine can compose CSS elements/Display List together at 500 frames / second.
Maybe next version of Windows / Linux desktop should use FF's servo engine?
> Don’t you find it a bit funny that Windows 95 is actually snappier than Windows 10? It’s really a shame that response times in modern computers are visibly worse than those in twenty years ago. My Amiga A1200 (Only have extra RAM) feels faster and more responsive that any modern computer with Windows or GNU/Linux desktop.
Layers of abstraction make complex tasks more reachable by a larger number of programmers by reducing the amount of specialist knowledge about those lower layers required to do the job. The more layers of abstraction you have, the less they have to worry about lower levels and can just get on with what they want to do.
> Don’t you find it a bit funny that Windows 95 is actually snappier than Windows 10? It’s really a shame that response times in modern computers are visibly worse than those in twenty years ago. My Amiga A1200 (Only have extra RAM) feels faster and more responsive that any modern computer with Windows or GNU/Linux desktop.
This is also why picking a good monitor is important for software development. Some monitors have tons of input lag (60-70ms) and that's the time it takes for you to see what you're typing to reach the display. This also includes the time it takes to see you move your mouse cursor too. I did a huge write up on picking a good monitor for development which can be found at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-to-pick-a-g…
"I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?" - John Carmack
I recently measured it with my phone's camera in slow motion mode. The system is an AMD Ryzen 1800X with AMD R9 280x GPU, KDE Plasma with KWin window manager in compositing mode. Key press to screen output latency was ~33 millseconds (90 fps recording, so increments of 11) in KWrite. The computer feels plenty responsive with that latency, and I hate latency... It is a full stack real world result - for comparison pur…
33 ms is two frames, if your monitor is at 60 Hz. If you tried vscode or other electron app, it might be 49 ms (3 frames). These are the numbers I'm getting from 1900X with Nvidia 1080 GPU, Gnome3, 4k@60hz, but without measuring latency of the keyboard itself. Modern keyboards are another part of the problem. They can also take their sweet time since keypress until packet appears at the USB bus. See https://danluu.co…