Re: [Evolution] About performance

[Thomas Prost <thomas prost prosts info>]

Am Montag, den 13.05.2013, 08:30 -0400 schrieb Adam Tauno Williams: 
> On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 10:05 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > But man this is kind of the same problem of the known kernel IO problem 
> > > that also I reported and nobody not much people trust just because they 
> > > didn't see any problem.
> > Because one person reporting problems is not usually credible - it's
> > indicative of a misconfiguration or an issue elsewhere.  Yes, it
> > sometimes is a problem, and given an infinite amount of resources all
> > such things would be investigated - but with limited (very limited)
> > resources, the developers have to concentrate on the things that have
> > the most impact for the most people.
>
> AND, it is important to note, that LINUX [and related applications] is
> used very successfully in a myriad of situations by a whole lot of
> people.
>
> Most low-level bugs at this point in time are extremely narrow, it is
> unreasonable to expect the world to jump on them when they harm 0.0001%
> of the universe.
>
> > > The same occurs in evolution. Just because it works well for you it does 
> > > not mean it's  working well.
> > > I can tell you that performance and usability degraded over time.
> > but not for most people.  My experience is that Evolution has become
> > more stable and more usable over the last few releases.  And yes, it has
> > become faster and more responsive.
>
> Exactly, it has gotten faster and MUCH more stable.   Some component may
> have broken, or something degraded, but "Evolution" has done neither.
>
> > To be honest most of the grouching about the stability and speed of Evo
> > seems to be coming from Ubuntu users
>
> Or people with *unbelievably* ancient versions.  Every time I see
> someone complaining about 2.32 or even 2.28... my jaw drops.  I just
> don't get it - why do that to yourself?

'coz it runs and does all I expect from it !