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slavins@hearsay.demon.juuuunkguard.co.uk (Simon Slavin) wrote:

==> 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.

to which real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar wrote:

==> 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.

Other than the main slow down - opening folders into a window - I've found
it similar in speed to previous finders.  Opening programs are as speedy as
before, and I'm impressed that the copy function is not significantly
slowed down from its multi-threadedness.  The main problem I have is its
memory footprint.  I can feel a 64Mb DIMM purchase coming on ...

I cannot remember all the old finders as I also upgraded hardware at the
same time as the OS.  Hence I remember 7.0 being faster than 6.0, but
that's because I had 6 on a Classic and 7 on a IIfx (and yes, there is a
time anomaly - and a spelling one - there, but ignore it and it will go
away).  By the time I got to 7.6, I had a 6400 (now running 8.0).

Yours,

Andrew