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Article #11071Re: Binary loading times
From: Eric J. Kennedy
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1989 19:08
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1989 19:08
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In article <355@antares.UUCP> jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith) writes: <In article <15043@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes: <>I have AmigaSpice and Superbase Professional on my hard disk. Spice takes up <>445K on the disk and SbPro takes up 354K. When I execute these <>programs, however, spice loads in just over 3 seconds, while sbpro <>takes over 13 seconds to load! When spice loads, the hard disk light <How much of Spice gets loaded? For a program of that size, I wouldn't be <surprised if it uses overlays. The 3 seconds may be how long it takes to <load in only the first section of the program. All of it. No overlays. That's why it requires 1.1 Meg to run. <How much of that 13 seconds is actually program load time? Some programs take <a long time to load libraries, read the FONTS: directory, preload fonts, or <locate other files on disk. If SbPro does all this before it opens its fist There may be some of that, but I don't think so. I generally already have the libraries loaded, and sbpro doesn't read the fonts: directory or load any devices to my knowledge. It does scan the current directory, but not until after the windows are opened. -- Eric Kennedy ejkst@cisunx.UUCP
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!cisunx!ejkst From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Binary loading times Message-ID: <15140@cisunx.UUCP> Date: 20 Jan 89 19:08:14 GMT References: <15043@cisunx.UUCP> <5734@cbmvax.UUCP> <355@antares.UUCP> Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys Lines: 24