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Kragen Sitaker kragen at pobox.com
Sat Jun 1 16:08:55 EDT 2002 
Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
> How fast do you need it to be?  (That's a serious question.
> Are you planning to open and close the application so frequently
> that six seconds is unacceptable?)

>From a human interface perspective, having to wait six seconds for a
response to a command (including "start program") is annoying; this is
the reason for "splash screens".  You don't want people to be annoyed
every time they start your program.

Worse, six seconds is plenty of time for a user's thoughts to wander;
it means that the user may have forgotten what they wanted to do by
the time the program starts.
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