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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: win3.0 performance
Message-ID: <1990May28.232831.8843@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 28 May 90 23:28:31 GMT
References: <10461@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
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In article <10461@spool.cs.wisc.edu> thaler@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) writes:
>I believe that many people are ASSUMING that the performance in windows
>3.0 is better without any really testing. 
>
>In this week's InforWorld and PC-Week, there were conficting reports as
>to the performance of Windows 3.0. In PC Week, they reported 10%
>increase in speed in loading and a 50% increase in speed in execution on
>a couple applications. In Infoworld, they reported that things slowed
>down about 5-10% on everything.

Due to the new virtual memory scheme implemented in Windows 3.0 there are
a lot of factors that could account for speed differences (albeit, nott as
major as you've noted).  Since it saves "memory" on the disk drive, it could
depend on the size of the smartdrive cache (if any) or the speed of the
hard disk.  It would depend on how much memory is in the system (e.g. 2 meg
versus 3 meg can make quite a difference).  And so on and so on.

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Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us