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From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: QuickST/TurboST revisited
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.052028.26501@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 91 05:20:28 GMT
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Quick ST 2.2 came in the mail today (Thanks Frank!).  I had heard it 
was faster than Turbo ST 1.8 which I have, so I wanted to give it a
try.  If this is old news, please forgive me.  

Before I rebooted my machine to install Quick ST, I checked the 
benchmarks for TurboST 1.8 with Quick Index 1.8.  I got the following 
for the monochrome desk accessory version (with TOS 1.6 blitter on and
tons of stuff in the AUTO folder and DAs):

  TOS Text:  299%
TOS String: 1257%
TOS Scroll:  103%
GEM Dialog:  233%

So I rebooted with QuickST monochrome version and got:

Loaded 4th or 5th in AUTO folder
--------------------------------
  TOS Text: 195%
TOS String: 670%
TOS Scroll: 101%
GEM Dialog: 224%


Loaded last in AUTO folder     
---------------------------
  TOS Text: 255%
TOS String: 675%
TOS Scroll: 101%
GEM Dialog: 248%


I was quite perplexed.  Where was the overwhelming speed increase?  I 
wondered if it was just one program slowing it down or what.  One by
one, I removed the TSRs and desk accessories and ran Quick Index each
time to find out that it was the accumulation of all of them, not just
one which slowed it down.  With all of the stuff removed (the ICD
booter doesn't make a difference), I got this from QuickST and Quick
Index:

  TOS Text:  303%
TOS String: 1241%
TOS Scroll:  103%
GEM Dialog:  264%

Therefore, QuickST HATES having stuff installed.  Pity.

Just to be fair, I loaded the AUTO folder version of Turbo ST and 
here are the results:

with nothing else loaded
------------------------
  TOS Text:  302%
TOS String: 1282%
TOS Scroll:  105%
GEM Dialog:  244%

with all my usual stuff loaded
------------------------------
  TOS Text:  228%
TOS String: 1225%
TOS Scroll:  103%
GEM Dialog:  227%

For those interested, I loaded both QuickST and TurboST (DA version) 
and I got:

  TOS Text:  296%
TOS String: 1257%
TOS Scroll:  103%
GEM Dialog:  236%

What was quite interesting was how QuickST blew TurboST away in the 
BMVGTEFF benchmark.  This one tests normal, bold, italic, light or 
grayed, and underlined.  The smaller figures are best.  

TurboST had 67, 67, 274, 611, and 241.
QuickST had 48, 67,  58,  95, and  48.

I don't use bold, italic, light, and underlined stuff often, so this 
isn't real beneficial for me.  But QuickST really blew TST away in 
this one!

Finally, here's what I have installed:

 SUPERBT.PRG       STENO.ACC
PINHED18.PRG     STALKER.ACC
POOLFIX4.PRG    TRBOMONO.ACC
CONS_FIX.PRG      MYBUSY.ACC
 NEOLOAD.PRG     MOUSE28.ACC
FONTLOAD.PRG    CALL_UIS.ACC
 TIMESET.PRG
TRBO_RES.PRG
   SKULL.PRG
 WATCHER.PRG
 NEWBELL.PRG
 AUXINIT.PRG
FORMDIAL.PRG
BLUDTEST.PRG
 MACCEL3.PRG
 UIS_III.PRG
QUICKSTM.PRG

I'm surprised that QuickST didn't fair that well.  Let's just hope 
that QuickST III is good and that the upgrade fee isn't outrageous. :^)

-- 
         Ed Krimen  ...............................................
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