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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
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Subject: Re: IIci + 8Mb != more speed
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Date: 15 Feb 90 02:55:08 GMT
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In article <22540@mimsy.umd.edu>, folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes:
> I just did another test...  I assumed that the wisdom that MultiFinder
> loads first into Bank B is incorrect.  So, I loaded up programs until
> I had less than 4Mb left, then loaded LISP.  This time, I got the 33%
> speed increase (27 clock ticks down to 19 clock ticks) in 8-bit mode that
> I wanted to see.
> 
For your next benchmark: how about allocating a 3.5Mbyte RAM cache... Of
course, all this leads to a potentially viable strategy: load your least
speed-sensitive apps first, until Finder reports free space as less than 4M.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu