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Beta0 Demo and Speedometer



I downloaded the Beta0 demo this morning... very nice splash screen, and the
Browser was quite nice looking too.

I noticed that it seemed to run a little slower than E/D 1.99q12, so I
decided to run Speedometer on both... the rating for Beta0 was higher than
that of q12, despite that fact that it seemed slower (14.something versus
11.something for CPU for instance.)  Also, at the same time, though, the
hands on the stopwatch were going around about twice as fast as I'd ever
seen them before.

I remember someone (I think it was Mat) wondering if, when everything sped
up in Executor/DOS 1.99q11, it might have just been Speedometer giving higher
ratings (a bug in the timer.)  I wanted to point this out in case this has
happened with Beta0, since the ratings say it's faster, but it seems slower,
than the previous BleedingEdge release.

On another note, I read the About Executor shpeel and noticed all the 
functionality that will be cut out of the demo version, as well as the 10
minute time limit.  I think this is a good idea... anyone with above average
computing skills can kill a timer, but it's not quite so easy to put in
missing code.

--Gene


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