Linux users want better desktop performance (Screw data. Prioritize code)
Colin Walters
walters at verbum.org
Tue Feb 17 19:47:10 UTC 2009
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Christopher Montgomery
<xiphmont at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's because a) virtually everything is backed by a db today (firefox
> is a pig because every keypress is firing off multiple database
> queries
I believe there's some work in Firefox 3.1 to make these queries
asynchronous. The primary issue is the amount of I/O they're doing in
the mainloop thread, which is always a big user experience mistake in
desktop applications.
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