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From: CHOOPER@acad.cut.oz (Todd Hooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: SuperCard speed
Message-ID: <1411@acad.cut.oz>
Date: 29 Nov 89 01:55:48 GMT
References: <1575@intercon.com>
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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In article <1575@intercon.com>, amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
> I discovered something very interesting this evening.  This afternoon I
> installed System 6.0.4 on my machine in a new System Folder (so that I
> could revert quickly if necessary), without most of my usual INITs.
> 
> When I ran SuperCard just now to remind myself of how slow it was, I was
> shocked to realize that it was running *much* faster than it ever had before
> for me.  It's still no HyperCard, but it's into the usable range, which it
> hadn't been before.  I'm not sure what INIT is the culprit, but I'm rather
> surprised that something would affect just SuperCard this way.
> 
> Has anyone else run into this?

Well, considering that you had no inits running, your Mac is probably
running faster overall, and hence the improved speed of SuperCard is 
a function of this.

Mac users often tend to forget that practically every init steals some
processor time somewhere. Whilst I'm not an expert on Mac internals, I've
heard enough about how init's work to convince me you should keep them
to a minimum.

Unless, of course, you have a IIci ;-)

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Todd Hooper                                                Computing Centre
                                            Curtin University of Technology
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