Ned Konz ned@bike-nomad.com is claimed by the authorities to have written:
On Thursday 01 August 2002 02:35 pm, Andreas Raab wrote:
Well, then let's get started. You say that opening menus hurts?! So how about (from a workspace):
Here's what I tried on my WinCE machine (131MHz MIPS).
It takes 4.2 seconds to open the World Menu (and about 1 second to see characters that I type into a Workspace!).
Yow!
If I move the menu around, it jerks from place to place at about 4 updates per second.
(It takes 70msec to open the World menu on my 1200MHz Duron).
Now _that_ is scary; on a big fast machine it is only just acceptably fast.
tim