OT: Why planet gnome doesn't tell all the truth?

[roger]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 07:25, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Xavier Otazu wrote:
> > I love the last conclusion ! ;-) ... but may be it is because it was
> > compiled from source.
>
> Cache may cause a lot of difference. So make sure you run each tests
> several times before jumping to the conclusions.
>
> Aslo, keep in mind that all software running on every system was
> compiled from source, some day ;)
>
> > Final conclusion: Any suposed objective test that claims that the poster
> > is better than the rest, has to be taken with a "most" of salt ... even
> > if they are the gnome guys. (This attitude remembers me of Microsoft) ...
> > :-(
>
> Don't tell them that, that would rightfully generate some anger. But for
> the rest, I guess you can ask them :)
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
>
Hi,

Obviously, your are not going to do a "cat /usr/share/dic/words" every day :)
I would think that the time required to just pop up the terminal would be 
important too, since it's probably more a day-to-day operation... and I guess 
that depends on the WM too (e.g. intellignent placing). Note: if the 
difference is of the order of a few dozens of milliseconds between different 
types of terminals, who cares?
Also how much resource taken by the terminal doing nothing... I mean, anything 
left for other "real" programs?
Besides, how would you explain that Xfce performs better with this "cat"; 
would it be because Xfce takes less resource (and so allow more to others) 
than other desktop environments do?

Cheers,
Roger