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- From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: MUI 3.2
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 17:34:18 -0000
- Organization: University of Strathclyde
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- Craig Matchan <cwaig@sage-ppp.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:
- >
- >I agree. When I really looked, my ENV: was using up 600k.
- ^^^^
- >I admit though, that there is a slight performance loss, ram is far quicker.
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- I've often thought about chucking env: to hard disk and running a file system
- cache on the hard disk - you could use the 600k you saved as cache memory,
- and accesses to env: being frequent should stay in the cache quite well. As
- a side effect, you should also notice an increase in disk performance ;-)
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