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Article #33518Re: ARC 5.21b
From: Lee Dickey
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1988 11:40
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1988 11:40
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In some article hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
| In article <1309@percival.UUCP> russ@percival.UUCP (Russ Schwartz) writes:
| >Since people seem to be porting ARC over to the ST and making mods to it
| >anyway, why not add a buffer that allocates as much memory as it needs for
| >the compressing/decompressing process so it will speed it up?
| [ stuff deleted ]
| ... In any case, I'm not sure that
| a large buffer will be such a speedup. I'd expect that it buys as much speedup
| as simply using a large enough RAMdisk. Running my system on a 1.4meg RAMdisk,
| I can say that it's godawful slow. I don't think throwing more memory at the
| problem is the solution.
I think I agree.
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L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!ljdickey From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ARC 5.21b Message-ID: <1757@water.waterloo.edu> Date: 9 Aug 88 11:40:07 GMT References: <386@clio.math.lsa.umich.edu> <1309@percival.UUCP> <391@clio.math.lsa.umich.edu> Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 20