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matt@zeb.ame.nd.edu (Matthew J. Grismer) writes:

>A couple of people have posted that 3.0 is slower than 2.1/2.0. Is this  
>everyone's experience that has received the upgrade? And slower in what  
>respect? Just the Workspace responds more slowly, or apps seem to run more  
>slowly? Anyone have any ideas why this would be the case, e.g. 3.0  
>requires a lot more RAM, there is a lot more disk swapping, or just  
>because a lot of new features have been added to the operating system?  
>Just curious.

>MJG
>NeXTmail preferred 

   I've just upgraded our cube (68040/40 Meg RAM/ND 20 Meg/400 Meg HD) 
from 2.1 to 3.0.  It was *Very* easy.

   To answer your question, it is much slower.  Many aspect of the
user interface are slower: scrolling of text, windows movement, many 
graphics operations (done with Create for example), etc. 

   I've worked with 3.0 for a week. I surprised myself a couple
of times swearing about the speed, or wondering about what was 
going on due to slow response.  I would rate the *perceived* 
performance degradation of the interface at about 20%. 
But it's still faster than Windows for PC. :-)

   On the other hand, the color environment provide by 3.0 is
the most professional looking, balanced and beautiful I ever
worked on.  I really think it is the best UI around, miles
in front of any offering.  It is awesome.  (i.e. I like it)

   Bottom line: it is time for new hardware.  For example:

	Display postscript accelerator 
	Multiple CPU board
	ND i860 usage (seem's to be sitting idle in our ND)

   A *bold* step to faster processor/architecture is needed.  
Since NeXT is positionning itself as a software company, 
just happening to make hardware, they should target high
performance processor.  I'd like to see NS running on a 
couple of R4000... 

   As a side note, I wonder if NS running on a 50MHz 486 will 
benefit of some speed improvement over the standard 33MHz 040?

   Bye, Daniel. 

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