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From: chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Is the NeXT Slow?
Message-ID: <1989Dec1.164327.1176@nueces.cactus.org>
Date: 1 Dec 89 16:43:27 GMT
References: <770002@hpvcfs1.HP.COM> <21947@brunix.UUCP>
Organization: Nueces Inc.
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rca@brunix (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes:


>The time to start up the application is mostly due to the fact
>that there are a lot of objects to be initialized or loaded in 
>from disk.

It is significantly better with more memory. Less copying and allocation
on the one disk.


>As everything is presented in Postscript, it takes a while to 
>recalculate the graphics (there are no bitmap-fonts nor
>approximations of postscript-fonts, it's the real thing but
>this has it's price...)

What is this then?

	nueces:/NextLibrary/Fonts/bitmap> ls
	total 519
	  34 Courier-Bold.bepf		   1 Lexi.bepf
	  35 Courier-BoldOblique.bepf	  33 Ohlfs.bepf
	  33 Courier-Oblique.bepf	  30 Symbol.bepf
	  33 Courier.bepf		  35 Times-Bold.bepf
	  etc .....

>Compared to X it is still fast :)

That's for sure....

-- 
Chris Whatley
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