From: Ted Unangst (teduzeitbombe.org)
Date: Mon Aug 23 2004 - 01:34:52 CDT

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On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, J.C. Roberts wrote:

> >Nobody cares why an app is fast, they care that when the start it, they
> >don't need to go take a nap before it starts up and can be used.
>
> Wrong. People around here care if programs are correct, compliant,
> secure and portable.
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/
> "Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness,
> proactive security and integrated cryptography."

any web browser which requires 9 seconds to start is not correct. and 9
seconds would be faster than average on the machines i'm using. the
comparative memory usage is also off the chart for similar browsing
sessions, or even for no browsing at all.

> >On my
> >laptop opera takes 3 seconds to load, and firefox takes 9. Once running
> >opera renders pages faster, and responds faster than mozilla. Is this
> >because opera somehow "cheats"? I don't know and I don't care, its

amen.

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