Comment by jmmv
1 day ago
Original author here! Thanks for (re)sharing. We previously discussed this at length in https://jmmv.dev/2023/09/performance-is-not-big-o.html
1 day ago
Original author here! Thanks for (re)sharing. We previously discussed this at length in https://jmmv.dev/2023/09/performance-is-not-big-o.html
I just got a second hand M1 Air, upgrading from 10 year old MacbookPro… wow. The animations on the new MacOS are slow as hell tho. Any way to speed them up? On iOS is it a breeze (no jailbreak): https://cowabun.ga/ (Choose: CowabungaLite)
The only slow animation I noticed is the genie effect when minimizing, but you can switch to a zoom effect and it's fastish.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think the main reason the new Win11 apps like Notepad, File Explorer, Task Manager have a slow UI and the piece-by-piece drawing issues is because they combine UWP (the "new" tech) with the old Win32 controls, they are not a from-scratch rewrite. There seems to be some big overhead in using the two different UI frameworks together.
There was an attempt to make a Chrome OS competitor that had the entire UI rewritten in UWP, and when that got canceled it seems MS saved the new start menu + taskbar and bolted it on top of Win10, and for Explorer and other apps made this UWP+Win32 abomination. Actually when you profile Explorer you can also see DirectUI running, which is I believe another UI framework from the Office org. this time (maybe it's related to OneDrive).
Btw, apps written in C# using WPF can be surprisingly fast, so it's not really a problem of .NET managed vs. native apps. For ex. may favorite Git GUI (git-fork.com) is C#/WPF.