Ned Konz <ned at 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

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