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- From: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
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- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 96 10:09:41 GMT
- Organization: a Graveyard of Empty Bottles
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- David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- : On Tue, 19 Mar 96 21:36:22 GMT, Jonathan Belson
- : <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- :
- : >David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- : >
- : >: On a PC, the dir listings and updates are so much faster it isn't even
- : >: funny. One has to wonder what the Amiga's doing that takes it so long
- : >: with a few dozen (hundred is even slower) listings in a directory...
- : >
- : >This is because the directory information is spead over the disk rather
- : >than being stored in one place. It makes a 'dir' slower but it is much
- : >easier to recover files if your media corrupts.
- : >
- : >Use DC-FFS if it bothers you.
- :
- : I see. That's not the problem in Workbench. In Workbench, if you
- : have a folder with 500 files in it, the drive spins for a moment, and
- : then it takes a good while to open a window and put all of the (listed
- : by name) icons in the folder. That has nothing to do with the FS
- : since the disk has long since finished...
-
- Aha! I see what you mean. It's probably sorting them, then allocating the
- memory for the display then blitting all the text in...It's a lot quicker
- with DirOpus.
-
- Scrolling them is blinking slow as well, even with a Picasso.
-
- C-YA
- Jon
-