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Subject: Re: QuickST/TurboST revisited
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.163929.360@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 12 Feb 91 16:39:29 GMT
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In article <1991Feb12.052028.26501@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes:
>
>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.

But by removing each program, when did you notice the jump in the TOS
String field? The reason I ask is because when I have all my stuff loaded,
this is the kind of performance I get with QSTII (tos 1.4, monochrome, 
no blitter)

  TOS Text:  259
TOS String: 1255
TOS Scroll:  131
GEM Dialog:  233


here is a list of my auto folder programs (granted, you got a hell of a lot
more, and I don't even know what a third of them are, but anyway...)

deskmg31	folder075
pinhed18	cache256
poolfix4	maccel3
eternal		unix2dos
supclkrd	quickstc
lgselect	quickstm
		neoload


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|Sam Alan Ezust					McGill University	    |
|depeche@cs.mcgill.ca				School of Computer Science  |
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