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>>>>> On 30 Mar 91 21:38:35 GMT, rick@claris.com (Rick Boarman) said:


| There's a couple possibilities:

| 1) Low memory.  We don't do any special garbage collection or weird
| heap management.  The ToolBox slows down pretty bad when free memory is
| less than about 100k.

| 2) Large files.  If there more than about ten thousand objects things can
| get a bit slow (unless you have an fx).

| 3) Inits.  This is our biggest source of problems. Many inits eat up a lot
| of time and memory.  Of all the calls to tech support a huge number turn
| out to be either a strange or multiple system folders related problems.

| The program itself does very little during idle time. It just tracks the
| cursor and does some upkeep tasks. What are we doing about this? Well,
| in MacDraw Pro we have switched over to new system calls that better
| support MultiFinder (MacDraw II is a fairly old program as far as code
| goes). We've done a lot to optimize performance and help manage memory 
| better.  For instance, MacDraw II keeps an offscreen buffer the same
| size and bit depth as the monitor.  We now crop the buffer as the window
| size shrinks and we don't let it grow too big.

| Hope this helps.

| Rick

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Actually, I still don't understand. In my original posting I asked
what is MacDraw II doing in the background when I am using ANOTHER
program (for example a terminal emulator).  Your explanation seems
to answer the question (if it would have been asked) what is MacDraw II
doing in the background when I am using it, not when it is in the background.

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