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- From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: Quattro Pro for Windows performance question
- Message-ID: <1ebtrvINN7al@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 23:05:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.143008.24986@wam.umd.edu>
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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- harold@wam.umd.edu (James B. Harold) writes:
- >Just got QP4W the other day...does anybody besides me think
- >this program is something of a hog when it comes to memory and
- >resources? Starting the program (with an empty spreadsheet) sucks
- >up about 25% of my available resources.
-
- Before After
- System 21% 16,483 28% 15,161 QPW
- GDI 33% 42,696 57% 27,448
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- 22% 16,335 Excel
- 43% 36,096
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- The windows displayed "System Resources" is a bogus number to start with -- some
- funky algorithm to produce a single number from a lot of information. The info
- above of memory and GDI is more accurate. The high GDI usage is due to the
- Borland application framework stuff. Since the dialogs and buttons are not pre
- loaded into windows, they eat up a bunch of GDI. This might seem bad, but I've
- had no problems about running out of GDI. (Now if windows would give you more
- than 64k for GDI...)
-
- Memorywise, get 8 meg of memory. At ~$25/meg, there is no excuse for running a
- 4 meg system under windows.
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