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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Binary loading times
Message-ID: <15140@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 19:08:14 GMT
References: <15043@cisunx.UUCP> <5734@cbmvax.UUCP> <355@antares.UUCP>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <355@antares.UUCP> jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith) writes:
<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

<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.

All of it.  No overlays.  That's why it requires 1.1 Meg to run.

<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

There may be some of that, but I don't think so.  I generally already
have the libraries loaded, and sbpro doesn't read the fonts: directory
or load any devices to my knowledge.  It does scan the current
directory, but not until after the windows are opened.
-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP