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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: AutoSave
Message-ID: <25270@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 Feb 89 23:35:24 GMT
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In article <7027@pucc.Princeton.EDU> SEB@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
>I'm sure the object manager helps make Hypercard faster than it
>might have been without it.  I would not, however, classify Hypercard
>as "fast".  Especially when using it on an AppleShare file server.
>Hypercard has become an integral part of my computer system, but it
>could be a bit faster in sorting, searching, etc.

When I think of HyperCard as fast I think of how it can fly through
cards with graphics faster than anything else on the Mac.  Have you seen
Bill Atkinson's Clip Art demo on a Mac II?  It is QUITE impressive.

Its sorting does take a while, but it is reasonably fast compared to
other disk based databases.  And its searching is VERY fast.  I know of
nothing else that searches as fast.  I have the entire King James Bible
in a stack and can find text in < 2 seconds.  I don't know of anything
else that does as well this side of a Connection Machine.


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