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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: What can't it do? (StuffIt in background???)
Message-ID: <2737@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 30 Jul 90 20:11:06 GMT
References: <1990Jul12.134006.368@eng.umd.edu> <1990Jul14.043050.8494@d.cs.okstate.edu>
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In article <1990Jul14.043050.8494@d.cs.okstate.edu> minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:
>  Have you really decoded a stuffit file and done something else t the
>time? I have found that StuffIt (1.5.1) is a cpu hog like nobody's
>business and pretty much locks up the machine. Is there something I
>missed?
>
	Stuffit has a preference setting for allowing it to work in 
	the background under MultiFinder, which really slows it down
	(for obvious reasons) If you do not have this setting turned
	on, Stuffit will become the CPU hog that you claim it to be.

	With all the discussion of Cooperative and pre-emptive multi-
	tasking, I may have missed it, but rarely is it mentioned
	that Cooperative multi-tasking appears on the surface to
	allow for much better performance than pre-emptive will allow.
	I suspect that if MultiFinder or future systems finally give
	us pre-emptive multi-tasking, performance is going to suffer
	right along with it, unless we have 50mhz+ CPU's for the 
	masses..


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