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A comment on The 64 Milliseconds Manifesto. Parent comment
Well, it should! Why does it take more than 100 million cycles to put up a window? Because it's not a priority, not because it's particularly hard.
> Illustrator or Photoshop
It can render in the background, but it should remain responsive the entire time and anything that doesn't need batch processing should be instant.
> Essentially no application follows this guideline and never will.
Most applications could follow it with only a medium amount of discipline.
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Well, it should! Why does it take more than 100 million cycles to put up a window? Because it's not a priority, not because it's particularly hard.
> Illustrator or Photoshop
It can render in the background, but it should remain responsive the entire time and anything that doesn't need batch processing should be instant.
> Essentially no application follows this guideline and never will.
Most applications could follow it with only a medium amount of discipline.