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- From: Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Hey, Digita! Organizer suggestion
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 19:54:39 GMT
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- In article <4gcq6d$310@news.eunet.ch> matija@amiga.icu.net.ch (Matija Milostnik) writes:
- > In article <824391583.5283@digita.demon.co.uk>,
- > Digita International <info@digita.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- > >"Stefano Cairoli" <Cacio@cacios.locebbs.chnet.ch> wrote:
- > >>* why the hell does Organiser have to load all the supplements in memory
- > >>directly at startup? I don't think it's so difficult to load them only
- > >>when I access them!
- > >
- > >If we did it the other way then people would say `Why does it spend
- > >ages reading the supplements from disk every time I view them, why
- > >can`t it load them all in when it starts?!" Seriously though, we take
- > >your point. Perhaps it could be a setting.
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- I think you will find most, if not all, Organiser users are hard drive
- owners, so the wait time would be minimal.
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- >
- > Why dont you make these addition libraries. They get loaded for the
- > first time when they are needed, stay in memory as long as possible
- > and get flushed if the ueser doesnt need them, but the system needs
- > memory, and dont slow down the next time the user uses an already
- > loaded addition.
- >
- > No need to add yet another (for the unexperienced user) obscure setting.
- > Arent libraries wonderfull?
-
- Trouble is, the supplements are supposed to be editable and easily created
- by the user in a text editor, so I shouldn't think a library is the way to
- go.
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