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Re: [MiNT] desktop from components



> > Well, no solution has advantages only. However, on a faster machine, 
> > this wouldn't be a big problem. I actually saw something like that 
> > working on a NeXT - where even desktop clock executed /bin/date to get 
> > the current time - and it worked rather well.
> 
> Well, MiNT's fork() and exec() code is very slow

So this would be yet another reason to make them faster.

> in a shell and compare the result with opening /bin in Thing,
> jinnee or any other desktop. (Note: I haven't tested this, I only
> assume the "winner" will be the desktop).

This is why I wrote that no solution has exclusively advantages.

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