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Re: Speedometer 3.23 - 1.99p & 1.99p4 comparison



>>>>> "GMangen" == GMangen  <GMangen@aol.com> writes:

    GMangen> Hi, I was hoping someone on the list might be able to
    GMangen> shed some light on this.  I saw it was mentioned on
    GMangen> another post.  I have used Speedometer 3.23 to benchmark
    GMangen> each new release of Executor and while 1.99o and 1.99p
    GMangen> were roughly comparable, there is an across the board
    GMangen> LOSS of between 25 and 35% in 1.99p4.  Have not had the
    GMangen> time to try p5 yet, but I am concerned by this because
    GMangen> the only thing which DID speed up is graphics which are
    GMangen> almost twice as fast.  This may sound like a good thing,
    GMangen> but it probably only is for games, and almost all of what
    GMangen> I do with Executor involves very little graphics and
    GMangen> mostly other CPU work.  Plus, it helps me make my Mac
    GMangen> owning friends mad that I can run their programs too and
    GMangen> they can't run mine.

There's a bug in Executor's new "auto-refresh" code that can cause it
to turn on refresh mode when it shouldn't.  This can happen in
Speedometer.  If you bring up the alt-shift-5 panel and see that
refresh mode is on, that's the culprit.  This should be fixed in
1.99p6.

By the way, you might want to get 1.99p5 since it fixes a few serious
bugs in 1.99p4.

-Mat


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