From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:59:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
Message-ID: <86odezjjv1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <E1IhlvV-0002qv-1K@fencepost.gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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