Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Jul 2005 19:43 UTC
Microsft has made hard statements about perfomance improvements in Longhorn. They claim that applications will load 15% faster than in XP, while boot time is decreased by 50%. They also claimed that Longhorn will be able to wake up from sleep in 2 seconds. Users should also expect half as many reboots during patching. Time to dust of those trustworthy stopwatches.
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Normal, from an Athlon 64 to an Athlon 64 X2, you just get 70%/90% speed improvement, provided you don't scam the threads management between the two cores like the current version of Windows do (loss of benefit from the dual core, check the reviews of X2).
Booting time reduced by 50% ? Sure, drives will be faster in 1/2 years, Microsoft knows it because under NDA with HD factories.
Microsoft should try to invest money on optimizing their OS instead to 'serialize' in XML everything they get under the hand. Booting from XML, saving DB in XML, doing anything in XML in time consuming in parsing text files. This is plain stupid. Binary files were made to speed things because close to the UC format (binary numbers ready to be processed).
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