1. RE: 2.4 speed
Ok Robert, I've isolated the "slowness" problem to a simple example, did
some tests and am emailing you the code and results.
-- Andy
Robert Elia wrote:
> At 08:07 PM 2/22/03 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >
> >More testing an a completely different program than the one I referred
> >to in my last post (no wacky math this time), but one which creates and
> >destroys lots of small to medium size sequences shows 2.4 being 5% or so
> >slower than 2.3. 2.4 is also using 2MB less memory (according to my
> >toolbar) than the same program on 2.3, so once I again I assume this has
> >something to do with memory management/garabage collection...
>
> One of my programs which has a long initialization time starts up
> twice as fast under ex.exe 2.4 :)> but another, which parses EU source
> and
> builds a database (in memory), took 53 seconds with 2.4 but only 22
> seconds
> with 2.3 doing that function. :(> I did the two tests in separate dos
> boxes several times in succession to try to minimize disk cache effects.
>
> Does ex.exe also use these Win API memory routines when running in
> a dos box?
>
> Bob
>
>
