On Wednesday 09 April 2025 11:00:23 Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
> On 4/9/25 12:06 AM, William Morder via tde-users wrote:
>
> I was thinking this morning that as fast as TDE seems compared to other
> DEs, that the fastest system I have seen is Windows for Workgroups
> (WFWG) 3.11 on my 450 MHz K6-III+ CPU with 256 MB of RAM. WFWG is 16-bit
> and designed for 486 CPUs with 16 MB of RAM or less. I well remember the
> first time I migrated WFWG from my 486 to my 586. I was dumbfounded by
> the huge increase in speed. I never have seen anything as fast since
> although TDE comes close.
If memory serves, we had a much earlier thread about TDE's speed, and somebody
posted links about comparisons among various DEs. TDE was the fastest among
the more "robust" desktops (as is, full of features, etc.). Only the really
barebones minimalist desktops were maybe a little faster.
I have two ideas for benchmarking:
one is to use qemu with -accel tcg -icount shift=N where N=1 and up to 9 I think ;)
Really slows things down, so speed difference due to cpu activity magnified heavily.
Another one is to use external (not depended on system under test) video capture device and measure responce times between user clicking on UI elements and any responce by measuring time in frames between two events. More fps - more accuracy ?
Perhaps somebody else here remembers that thread, or can help us by finding
some such link with comparisons of various DEs?
may be links in this thread?
googled it from tablet/firefox.
Sadly google search stopped worked woth konqueror's js implementation lately, so one bit of functionality was taken away .....
But turbo yes to using sw developed on/for slow computers on relatively overpowered ones. Even qemu-system-ppc (~10x slowdown in integer perf relative to host) can run macos 9 UI reasonably snappy on AMD FX 4300 host (and yes, I bought AMD FX based machine in 2022 because previous one worked reliably. Complete with VGA input monitor. Too many horror stories about link training failures during my stay on #nouveau ...)