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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Directory scan test(Re: What I want from new Workbench)
- Date: 24 Mar 96 11:24:43 +0000
- Message-ID: <1486.6657T684T2198@Redrobe.demon.co.uk>
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- Hi, Bernhard Graf , on 19-Mar-96 19:11:14 you scribbled....
- >In article <314ce43f.2844388@news.onramp.net>: "Re: What I want from new
- >Workbench" David Corn <dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com> wrote:
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- DC>> On a PC, the dir listings and updates are so much faster it isn't even
- DC>> funny. One has to wonder what the Amiga's doing that takes it so long
- DC>> with a few dozen (hundred is even slower) listings in a directory...
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- >One has to wonder, how the programmer did it, to make it soooo slow.
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- >A little speed competition:
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- >The Task:
- > List C: (148 files) and DOWNLOADS: (323 files)
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- >The competitors:
- > - Workbench 3.0 (list all files in text-only-mode)
- > - ASL-Requester 3.0
- > - DirOpus 4.11
- > - an old (pre-2.0) self-made file requester (written in Assembler)
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- >results (used my wrist watch ;*)
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- > Workbench ASL DirOpus MyFr
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- >C: 22s 1s 2s <1s
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- >DOWNLOADS: 32s 5s 8s 4s
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- >Sometimes the ASL-Requester is extremely slow -- I suppose this depends
- >on heavy disk fragmentation.
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- >But without any doubts WB needs some enhancement in this category!
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- >Ciao
- >--
- >Bernhard Graf
- >mail graf@jojo.IN-Berlin.DE
- > graffbgd@sp.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE
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- Mike
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