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- From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows
- Message-ID: <bzln4z@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 19:17:26 GMT
- References: <Sep.2.08.09.51.1992.3949@ratt.rutgers.edu> <1992Sep3.040823.9415@wam.umd.edu> <1992Sep3.150719.5959@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- In <1992Sep3.040823.9415@wam.umd.edu> macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole) writes:
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- >Nope...Stacker compresses (or tries to) everything...whatever is on the stacker
- >drive will have too be decompressed first...hence, any disk i/o operations will
- >take a tad bit longer. Of course, if you have files that are loaded in all at
- >once..then you can save space by keeping them on the stacker drive. I keep all
- >of my windows apps on the stacker drive...except for windows itself and Norton
- >Desktop.
-
-
- Well, Stacker/Superstore/etc. don't always slow down disk I/O. In some
- cases it actually speeds things upCertain data file types (like
- ascii, database, wordprocessing, and bit maps) get compressed up to 16:1
- by these programs. Decompression takes very little time to do, all the
- computer has to do is replace short pieces of "code" with the real data.
-
- My point is that if you're trying to read in a huge database into RAM
- and you have a slower hard drive, you might actually be able to access
- the data faster if its been compressed (i.e. time to read in a file
- 1/16th the size + time to expand file to normal length < time to read
- in uncompressed file). I have tried this with a 286/12 2 MB RAM and
- found that accessing a database of names and addresses was about 20%
- fatser when the data came from a superstore drive than it did when I
- moved the file to the non-compressed section and uninstalled the driver.
-