FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Windows Vista Performance Kludges (that Haiku does not need)

[Mikael Jansson <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephan Assmus skrev:
> On 2006-12-12 at 07:44:44 [+1300], Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > Well indeed Vista, XP and OS X certainly have more built-in features
> > than BeOS. I don't think the order of magnitude difference is quite
> > ten million, but I see your point. I would argue that in a few years
> > Haiku could add many of these features and still not see the
> > performance issues that Windows (or for that matter even OS X) sees.
> No one knows for sure. If we ever have the resources to add any feature we 
> want, we would need to address the problem by strict philosophy that "simple 
> is good". In a way, this means to me that we should design things so that the 
> user is empowered to understand what is going on and by this understanding 
> make the computer do what he wants and compensate "missing features".
There is, however, a problem with that thinking. See a recent 
JoelOnSoftwareArticle:
    http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/09.html

Sure, simple is good. But "which" simple?

-- tic