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From: kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu (Ken Hancock)
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Subject: Re: Don't post stuff using stuffit
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Date: 30 Dec 90 22:26:38 GMT
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In article <1990Dec30.221035.16112@cs.umn.edu> kanefsky@cs.umn.edu (Steve Kanefsky) writes:
>The Quick Tips column in the latest (Jan '91) issue of MacWorld suggests
>that several factors make a tremendous difference in un-stuffing time
>for Stuffit 1.5.1, so possibly they will also make a difference in Stuffit
>Classic and Stuffit Deluxe.  I haven't tried any of these myself yet,
>but apparently, using a screen saver when unstuffing, running Stuffit and
>the System off of a floppy(!), and setting the Monitors CDev in the control 
>panel to Black&White all drastically improve un-stuffing performance.  The 
>times given for unstuffing a 98K archive went like this:

I too was amazed at this and actually found it to be true.  It's actually
not too surprising when you sit there and watch your hard disk's access
light constantly flicker.  When I ran StuffIt Deluxe on an 8 meg
IIfx (finder only), I was appalled by the speed.  The intelligent
thing to do would be to create one large input buffer and one large
output buffer to lessen disk access.  StuffIt Deluxe seems to ignore
available memory and reads in tiny blocks at a time.  It's not hard
to understand how everyone else's StuffIt decompression programs are
faster than StuffIt.  Hopefully this'll change in StuffIt Deluxe 2.0.
Otherwise, I guess I'll have to switch to Compactor -- written by
someone who appears to be much more competant than the folks at
Aladdin.

Ken

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