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Article #1209Re: Nitro
From: Alex Blakemore
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 03:53
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 03:53
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>(Matthew Dillon) writes:> > > The main problem with 3.0 is in paging from disk, a faster processor > will not help at all in that area. but it will still help - it will make the swaptimizer even more effective and make tasks that involve more computation than IO/paging faster, things like interactive graphics could be noticeably improved while others like large compiles could get only marginal improvements. the swaptimizer is a really cool idea, be sure to try it out - esp if you have a Turbo, it is most likely disabled by default. whether it helps depends on the workload and system. -- --------------------------------------------------- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!alex From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Nitro Message-ID: <60916@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 6 Oct 92 03:53:57 GMT References: <dillon.0oq2@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> <1992Oct5.131709.6267@cube.handheld.com> <BvnJ4A.pL.2@cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 15