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I use an iPhone 13 mini, and I experience no delays within the settings app.



I was talking about the settings app in macOS.


Oh, I see. There is a slight delay (closer to 1 second or less) switching menus inside of Settings on my M3 Air.


There is no reason for the delay to be more than 100ms. The 1 sec delay must be due to some extremely inefficient lazy init or a bunch of io happening when you switch between screens


We’re (largely) not running OSes from spinning metal anymore, so even if there were some I/O that needs to happen (there shouldn’t be), a second would be an indication that the app was doing it badly. A modern SSD will read multiple gigabytes in a second, if the reads are sequential and you don’t wait for each one to complete before starting another. Unfortunately, we as a species have not figured out the programming tools necessary to make that natural.




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