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Simon Slavin <slavins@hearsay.demon.juuuunkguard.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <1998020523372981358@thebeast.demon.co.uk>,
> thebeast@nospam.demon.co.uk (Steve Rogers) wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know why 8.0 is so slow at opening windows, even empty ones?
> > If I'd coded that module I would count it a failure!
> 
> Several things I've read about 8.1 say that this has been improved.
> 
> I must admit to having been puzzled by the Finder that comes with
> 8.0.  It is slower than the one that comes with 7.6 at many things.

The fastest Finder I've met is 4.2 (or thereabouts).  The System 6
Finder isn't significantly slower; the early System 7 ones are *much*
slower, and the System 7.6 Finder is much faster than the 7.1 version on
my Performa 475.  I think the problem is all the extra baggage it's
carrying these days slows it down - 7.6 was anomalous, because they'd
stripped out a lot of the old code needed to support the older Macs -
68020 code, and less of it.  How this affects the PPC Macs is anyone's
guess.

Rowland.

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