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From: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Binary loading times
Message-ID: <355@antares.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 04:06:00 GMT
References: <15043@cisunx.UUCP> <5734@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
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In article <15043@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>I have AmigaSpice and Superbase Professional on my hard disk.  Spice takes up
>445K on the disk and SbPro takes up 354K.  When I execute these
>programs, however, spice loads in just over 3 seconds, while sbpro
>takes over 13 seconds to load!  When spice loads, the hard disk light
>stays on steadily, and I can hear the heads moving
>"tick...tick...tick...".  When sbpro loads, the drive does its usual
>flickering and seeking all over creation.

How much of Spice gets loaded?  For a program of that size, I wouldn't be
surprised if it uses overlays.  The 3 seconds may be how long it takes to
load in only the first section of the program.

How much of that 13 seconds is actually program load time?  Some programs take
a long time to load libraries, read the FONTS: directory, preload fonts, or
locate other files on disk.  If SbPro does all this before it opens its fist
window, then it would appear to be slow even if the program itself was loaded
quickly.  Seeking all over creation sounds like it's accessing multiple files.
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