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From: Ken.Knight@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ken Knight)
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Subject: Hypercard 2.0
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Date: 9 Jan 91 02:46:20 GMT
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I've found HC 2.0 to be faster than 1.2.x for many things. There has
been discussion of this before here and the informal quicky tests I've
run show HC 2.0 to be quite a bit quicker. The environment you run HC
2.0 in does have a fiar affect on the speed of the stack. If you are
running under MultiFinder with lots of background tasks running HC 2.0
will slow down a good deal. But, that is acceptable cause now HC at
least lets those processess run. Here is a quicky summary of some crude
tests I did a while back the times are in ticks (1/60 sec = 1 tick)
these were done running MultiFinder on a Mac II all the tests were done
with the screen locked:
 
                                       1.2.x   2.0x*     2.0
Flip 100 lines in a field                870   1118      260
Flip 100 lines in a container            266    111      114
Add 100 lines in a field (partial sums) 1002    1433     218
Add 100 lines in a field (just total)    311    326       94
Add 100 lines in container (partial sum) 194    159      152
File to Field (tab-delimited 3-column)   1778   1124    1362
 
* HC 2.0 running unconverted stacks.
HC 2.0 is consistently faster than 1.2.5 running converted stack. It is
almost always signifigantly faster running unconverted stack,too. While
there is no downward compatability that is nothing really new. You
could write stacks for HC 1.2 that WOULD NOT run on older version of
HyperCard and many people did write such stacks. 2.0 provides so much
more than 1.2.x that it is well worth the switch.


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