On 28/01/2014 10:51 AM, scott wrote:
>> 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.

I know I ran Linux (Debian Potato) on my Amiga 1200, and it was slow to 
the point of being laughable. Meanwhile, the native OS was trippy fast - 
faster than some of today's modern PCs, 20 years later. Then again, I 
suspect that X11 doesn't know how to do custom trickery with the Blitter 
chip...

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