> Apparently the command-line version zips along quite nicely on a Pi, but
> the GUI is "a little sluggish - but still faster than the original Mac".

I got fed up with trying to run a music player on my pi (xbmc) under 
linux, it was stupidly sluggish just navigating menus or responding to 
key presses, searching the library was a total joke. So I spent a few 
days writing my own one in interpreted *BASIC* (with just the core 
search function implemented in assembler for speed) under RiscOS. Now as 
soon as you type the next character in your search term the results are 
displayed instantly, or navigating the folder structure is pretty much 
instantaneous. I can only conclude that the Linux APIs for doing 
graphics and file IO are bloated and slow for whatever reason.

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