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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: 0.505s | source
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HumblyTossed ◴[23 Jun 23 17:47 UTC] No.36450078[source]▶
Ok, so the NT machine has no opening animations. The W11 machine has opening animations. Those things have a fixed running time. They're used so that the opening isn't so jarring to the eye, but yes, it slows shit waaaay down.
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1. memalign ◴[23 Jun 23 17:56 UTC] No.36450178[source]▶
I suspect that these animations make launch feel faster much of the time by hiding the true launch time of the app. And I think this is a primary purpose of launch animations.

Compare to iPhone OS 1: apps had static launch images that the OS animates to be visible so an app has hundreds of milliseconds to load before the user feels a hang.