Browser on slower machines

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Mon Jul 28 16:55:34 UTC 2003


"Eddie Cottongim" <cottonsqueak at earthlink.net> wrote:

> If there aren't (m)any big bottlenecks, then there must be a bunch of
> smaller ones. That means that with each fix you may not get a massive
> measurable improvement, maybe just above the margin of error in measuring,
> which tends to slow acceptance - "Well, this doesn't make a big difference,
> so its not needed."
That's ok; small changes are easier to find and make. They may only
improve thing by a fraction of a percent but since they're small you can
produce many of them. Many * 0.5% quickly adds up.


tim
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