From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 17 13:12:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail19b.rapidsite.net (mail19b.rapidsite.net [161.58.134.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A8B037B435 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 13:12:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from 198.104.176.109 (198.104.176.109) by mail19b.rapidsite.net (RS ver 1.0.60s) with SMTP id 0109011322; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:16:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C701BF5.F140C988@pythonemproject.com> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 13:09:09 -0800 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary W. Swearingen" , "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Why is Python slower on FreeBSD than Windows?/Terry is a genius:) References: <20020216180815.J91166-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <3C6F8896.CDB8A2FE@mindspring.com> <7zsn7zgatl.n7z@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > Terry Lambert writes: > > > Doug White wrote: > > > > > > Good luck. The Vaios are infamous for having bad ACPI implementations. > > > > Works in Windows: Not a VAIO problem, it's a FreeBSD > > problem. > > > > Unless you are saying Windows Programmers are better > > than FreeBSD programmers? > > I think I get the point, but I'll bite the troll anyway. > > Saying that it's a FreeBSD problem and not a VAIO problem is like saying > that a dead battery is a driver's problem and not a car problem. A > dead battery IS a car problem and a non-standard (and closed) ACPI > implementation in a VAIO IS a VAIO problem, unless we don't share a > common language. > > In cases like this the particular Windows programmers involved usually > ARE better (at least a lot faster), because of their better access to > VAIO designers and/or design documents than FreeBSD programmers. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message With all that said, I'm pretty happy with my Vaio. Of course console bigger than VESA would be nice. I wish I understood the FBSD internals enough to take on that project. I think Sony now has better video chips than the Intel 815. Rob. -- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message