[Novalug] RE: Bug?: Linux not as responsive as Windows (MichaelHughes)

[David Zakar]

So, basically, Microsoft hacked the scheduler to give better response time
to UI input? That sounds familiar to what Sun used to do / still does -
Solaris gave priority to the window that had focus, IIRC.

Ah - looks like someone submitted a patch for Xorg to do that, too:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2192

-DMZ

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed T. Toton III [mailto:bones at necrobones.net] 
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:51 AM
To: Michael Hughes
Cc: waltechmail at yahoo.com; Novalug at calypso.tux.org
Subject: Re: [Novalug] RE: Bug?: Linux not as responsive as Windows
(MichaelHughes)

Thus spake Michael Hughes:

> Hi Nick, Walt, Jim, and fellow Luggers:
>
> Sorry if my first post wasn't descriptive enough - it's hard to put my 
> finger on exactly what it is that seems to be a little different.

I've noticed it too, and my theory is that it boils down to a difference in
design philosophy. Linux is much more process-agnostic. That is, unless you
toy with the "nice" levels, processes are treated equally regardless of what
they do.

Windows on the other hand is essentially a GUI, with everything else being
subservient to the UI. At least that's the impression I get.

So my feeling is that while the overall performance can be excellent in
both, Windows tends to put the UI first. The difference in "feel" can be
extremely subtle.


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