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Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?

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752 points dceddia | 1 comments | 23 Jun 23 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.231s | source
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jeffbee ◴[23 Jun 23 14:36 UTC] No.36447365[source]▶
Only Windows has this issue. There's nothing about my Mac or my Chromebook that is anything less than immediate. You can quibble about whether the compositor introducing an extra frame of latency was worth the tradeoff, but that is on the margins.
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spatulon ◴[23 Jun 23 14:52 UTC] No.36447612[source]▶
The Mac is no better, in my experience. I just timed how long it takes to open the Calculator app – the simplest app I could think of – on my 2019 MacBook Pro, and the window appears 600ms after clicking on the dock icon. I would not call that immediate, and it only gets worse when you try more complex applications, especially those written in Electron.
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1. jeffhuys ◴[23 Jun 23 14:57 UTC] No.36447704[source]▶
VSCode is ~1s.

Terminal ~300ms.

iTerm ~400ms.

Calculator ~300ms.

Firefox ~1s.

Textedit ~200ms.

Slack ~1s to appear, ~5s to load.

Sequel Ace ~800ms.

Fork ~500ms.

All my subjective experience, but it's basically instant in experience. I think it also helps that it doesn't show fade in/out animations, which LOOK sluggish to me.

M1 MacBook Pro from 2020...