[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows 98se with Linux!

[Aaron Kulkis]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Aaron Kulkis
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>> So over the past two decades, storage capacity has grown faster than I/O bandwidth, and both have grown faster than CPU power.
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>> Slower and slower system response as software gets more and more bloated, part from sloppiness, and partly from lazy programmers
>> using languages which are more and more abstract and compile more and more inefficiently -- or even worse, "compile" to p-code
>> or j-code or whatever-code and then run that on the whatever-code interpreter.
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> Lazy programmers certainly exist, but the story's a *leetle* more complicated than that.
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> Those "more and more abstract" languages handle more and more of the scutwork of programming. Machine time is cheap, programmer time is limited.
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> Now you can disagree with how a lot of people judge the tradeoff - and personally, I think the balance *is* too far in the 'ease of programming' direction a lot of time - but it's not that programmers are inherently lazier today. It's also worth noting that low-level programming really *is* harder nowadays - the 'bare metal' machines are *much* more complicated, the operating systems more complex, and there are more considerations to worry about. Amiga programs were very responsive, but there was no memory protection back then, and little security. There was hardly any symmetric multiprocessing or concurrent programming. A lot of those libraries and interpreted languages add bloat, but they also add flexibility and feature support.
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> Don't get me wrong - I think a lot of stuff could, and should, be tightened up - *especially* in libraries that a lot of apps are going to be using. But there's also a time for letting the machine do the plumbing so you can focus on solving the overall probem.
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That's true.  Iv'e notice that since openSuSE switched from the SysV init system to the SystemD init system that
my computer has become... sluggish.

And that is for software which was SUPPOSED to improve responsiveness, right down to faster boot times.

Personally, I think it's because Sievert and Poettering are couple of narcissistic gits, based on their track record.

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