On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:10:39 +0100 Charles Forsyth <charles.fors...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Changing my default shell from bash to rc caused even terminal windows (let > alone 9term ones) to appear almost instantly on Ubuntu > (9term windows appear instantly on the click). i'm not sure how ubuntu manages this when other linux distros don't have the problem at all. os x does have the same problem... perhaps it's some optimization ubuntu doesn't enable and os x doesn't have; perhaps prelinking which itself is a workaround for the slowness caused by developing hugely complex software on dynamic linking. *sigh* > > We slowly standardise on slow standards, with degradation everywhere. no argument here! -- This is obviously some strange usage of the word "simple" that I was previously unaware of.
