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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
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Subject: more, RAM5 vs. HD
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Date: 13 Aug 90 05:28:00 GMT
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"Mike's" observation about how slow /RAM5 is in comparison to a
well-tuned SCSI DMA disk prompted me to make another experiment.  I have
been automatically assuming it made sense to load my WordPerfect
dictionary into /RAM5 before I do any spell checking on big documents.
Surprise -- it doesn't make that much difference.  Checking a 1500 word
document took 68 seconds with the dictionary in /RAM5 -- with it on my
CMS 60Meg drive it took 100 seconds -- of course I have no idea how much
of WordPerfect that is reflecting, but I thought it interesting.  (With
the TWGS in normal speed there is even less difference:  137 sec with
the dict in /RAM5, 171 with it on the HD.)  There is one thing I don't
understand, however:  the ProSel timing measurements for the access
times of /RAM5 aren't affected by whether the TWGS is in Transwarp or
normal ("fast") speed.

TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil