Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
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- Oct 16, 2007, 12:59 UTC
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
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>> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:29:41 +0100 (BST) >> From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> >> >> On Linux, I would have hit Control-C already. Such an operation >> typically takes less than 0.1 seconds. > > We were not comparing Linux with Windows, we were talking about > Windows user experience. On Windows 4 seconds is not too long.
If it is accompanied by some animation of papers winging across the screen or a progress bar or similar. Otherwise people might think that Windows crashed and reboot.
Anyway, the problem is that 4 seconds for 32K files means 40 seconds (at least) for 320K files. At some point of time, things become really unpleasant.
-- David Kastrup