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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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