Computer and smartphone latency

Ran across this on Twitter (apologies for the lack of a hat tip, can’t find the original post).

Dan Luu:

I’ve had this nagging feeling that the computers I use today feel slower than the computers I used as a kid. As a rule, I don’t trust this kind of feeling because human perception has been shown to be unreliable in empirical studies, so I carried around a high-speed camera and measured the response latency of devices I’ve run into in the past few months. Here are the results.

Follow the link, check out the charts. Apple simply rocks at reducing latency.