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From: madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: RAM and performance
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.204129.6900@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 91 20:41:29 GMT
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In article <1991Apr22.185224.10680@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green) writes:
>I say this because most of the performace increase seemed to be due
>less swapping.  As long as everthing is still in memory I don't think
>that adding 16 more meg for a non color workstation would make THAT
>much of a difference.  Now if you're talking about a server or a color
>workstation that is being used to run memory intensize programs then
>yes it probably would help, but for the average user I don't think so.

Even with 16M, I still notice a lot of swapping when doing a lot of
Mathematica 1.2 work.  For that, I could definitely gain significantly
from more memory.  I'm hoping that Mma 2.0 won't be such a memory hog,
but I won't be suprised if it still is.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu