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

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On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:07:54 +0800, Qiangning Hong <hongqn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Michal Kapalka wrote:
>> 1. (as already pointed by someone else) Who runs "cat /a/large/file" so
>> often that the difference between 1 sec and 4 sec is of any
>> significance? (and who will be reading so much text from any terminal
>> anyway? ;) IMHO, benchmarks should correspond to the user actions that
>> are the most common.
> 
> For us gentoo users, a simply command such as "emerge firefox" will
> produce *tens of thousands of lines* of output to the terminal.
> Actually, from the log files, I know that the last execution of "emerge
> xorg-x11" gave me 120785 lines of output!

gentoo users are irrelevant either to this discussion. You should have your
compile mania redirect to a file instead if you're worried about performance
and definately not compile in a terminal that is being displayed by X - that's
just a waste of pixel bandwidth!

Auke