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Re: [MiNT] Software IDE
On Tuesday 10 December 2013 22:25:15 Henk Robbers wrote:
> Op 12/10/13 9:08 PM, Jean-François Lemaire schreef:
> > It's slow as molasses. Which is to be expected, with a 266Mhz single core
> > processor.
>
> 266 MHz is pretty fast. My first computer was a 500 KHz
> mainframe. (Less then half a century ago. Compare that with
> the evolution of humanity)
What evolution?
> It is the software that makes fast computers slow. (grmble)
I agree, but what I meant is that it's to be expected for software designed on
multi core 3000+MHz CPUs to be slow on a 266MHz single core.
> But who am I? I'm almost as slow as possible.
I'm all for slowness. I use GCC on an Atari, remember? :-)
Cheers,
JFL
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Jean-François Lemaire