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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 12:56:43 IST
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- From: "Itamar Even-Zohar, Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM>
- Subject: Re: Is NB4 (much) slower?
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- In-Reply-To: Message of Fri,
- 11 Sep 92 10:57:00 MET from <VANDIJK@ALF.LET.UVA.NL>
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- Is NB 4.0 slower than 3.1?
-
- NB 4.0 loads NBLINGUA.FNT. If you work with HGC+, this means
- that when you shell to DOS, this file must be UNloaded to make
- the display possible (it was impossible to work with NB textbase
- if you worked in 48k ramfont mode with HGC+). The same principle
- applies to VGA, although the structure of NBLINGUA.FNT is
- different (I presume). This must take an extra second.
- (By the way, if you worked in multilingual environment in 3.1,
- you had to shell to DOS via HELP, because only then you
- would get the right display). The flushes you see are the
- traces of this loading and unloading process. When the fonts
- are loaded, different display parameters must be loaded, too;
- during the interval between fonts loading and parameters loading,
- you can see incorrect display (this is not a new phenomenon;
- you can find detailed explanations in my docs on HGC+ in
- NB-HGC01.ZIP).
-
- In addition, all accented letters in NB 4.0 are now (at least in
- the multilingual, lingua version) 3 bytes combinations.
- This is what has displeased me most about this version, but my criticism
- has been rejected. I am sure that 3 bytes combinations (which
- certainly make NB files no longer 100% pure ASCII) delay
- scrolling etc., since they augment the volume (size) of the
- handled file. I cannot evaluate if this is the case with the
- final version, because I haven't yet got one.
-
- It is not implausible that the complex structure of NB 4.0
- (editor -- several overlays -- display regulator -- HELP file
- [a tremendous file indeed]) also causes delays.
-
- In short, Teun's impressions deserve to be tested.
-
- Itamar E-Z
-