85 bounces
by Volker Weber
Just downloaded and installed Milestone 5 of Eclipse 3. It takes 85 bounces of the dock icon to load it, with only one Hello World sample in the Workspace.
I like to take this as a measure, since the icon stops bouncing when the application is done loading, not when the first window appears. Just for comparison: Safari, Word and NetNewsWire Lite take six bounces each. SubEthaEdit takes two.
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Just for us non-Macies (not yet... as noted elsewhere in this forum), could you briefly elaborate on how an icon bounces?
I remember some client measuring the time it took him to open a document in his Notes client by counting the blinks of the "Opening..." message in the status bar, that sounds like it's a similar "concept" ;-)
Sorry for my ignorance,
safari takes 7 bounces on your ibook??? wow, it launches almost (2 bounces max.) on my 867mhz 12" pbook, which is identical the G4 ibook except for 67MHz and a different video card (mine is worse, actually)
85 bounces is an indicator of your level of tolerance ;) but safari takes 7 bounces on your ibook??? wow, it launches almost instantly (2 bounces max.) on my 867mhz 12" pbook, which is identical the G4 ibook except for the extra 67MHz and a different video card (mine is worse, actually), how much ram have you got?
(so sorry about this mess) :P
Look here this Saturday.
Safari takes 10 on my G3 iBook with 256MB or RAM. Notes takes 15.
Thought: Does the number of bounces depend on the magnification setting or size of the dock?
Jake
That may very well be.
I was not trying to create an independent benchmark with this "bounces" number. I am only comparing one application to the other. And Eclipse is a very slow starter.
Indeed. My 233MHz G3 iMac launches Safari in 7 or 8 bounces (256MB RAM). Mind you, maybe the bounces are slower ;-)
I don't have the gall to try Eclipse though: it's bad enough on the PC, so I dread to think what it's like on an old Mac. Oof!
Forget bounces, check THIS out:
I have a T23 running WinXP. There are three apps open: Notes 6, TextPad (no docs open) and Firebird. Notes has three tabs open: Workspace, my website database, and the replicator page. Switching between my Db and the replicator took 23 seconds while the hard drive thrashed itself into a frenzy.
When it became apparent that Notes was going to be slow, I task-switched to Firebird. As I type this post, the page still hasn't come up: my T23 screen is in mid-redraw.
Now THAT is crappy performance and OS-level "multi-tasking" my friends ;-)
Got to go; my hard drive has quietened down now.
