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Re:Fast Software, the Best Software by vbezhenar on Thursday July 25, 2019 @10:13AM (#20525498)
Sure. I'm running Core i5 7600 / 16 GB RAM / Samsung SSD 750 EVO / GeForce GTX 1060. It takes around 3-4 seconds to open for the first time and it takes around 2-3 seconds to open for the second time. For both Chrome and Firefox. I don't consider it slow. After it opened, every interaction is almost instant. I recorded video to check exact timestamps, so you can check it for yourself: https://youtu.be/F7LPAIe0jhw

I don't know how could you expect ms-time response. I have 70ms ping to mail.google.com. It's just not possible for a web app to 9ms time response, unless you're living at data center. But as a web app, Gmail is amazing and pretty fast. I don't know why it's slow for other people, I'm not Google engineer and I don't have performance insights. I just telling that it's far from slow for me. Definitely not 10 seconds.

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Re:Fast Software, the Best Software by michaelmrose on Saturday July 27, 2019 @02:44AM (#20540728)
Your cpu is probably 4-6x faster than mine and not running in a mode optimized for battery life. You have twice as much ram and faster to boot with a faster ssd.

It's slow for others because a huge range of machines exist and tons have slower cpu, storage, or especially network.

Worldwide the majority is probably using worse machines especially in poorer countries than ours.

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