I dont know the purpose of testing application launches but if you want to
factor out the hard disk, why not use a ram drive?


W.

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In other words one way or another, we may just be testing 
hard disks.
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-----Original Message-----
From: lcs@... [mailto:lcs@...]
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 12:41 PM
To: futurebasic@...; lcs@...; tedd@...
Subject: [FB] Re: MultiLaunch Results




Hi All,

I wrote: 


 > --- G3 333Mhz PB now gives 5.8 ticks per launch.
 > --- FX now gives 8.5 ticks per launch.

tedd then got:

 --- 6.0 ticks per launch with G4 500 Mhz

(But which system??)

I mused:

 > That [68K vs G3/4] is amazingly close and suggests 
 > that my use of a disk file to store the record
 > of launches is predominating.

In other words one way or another, we may just be testing 
hard disks.