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Received: from relay2.UU.NET (relay2.UU.NET [192.48.96.7]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA03614 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 12:58:21 -0800 From: GMangen@aol.com Received: from mail06.mail.aol.com by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP id QQzobj11418; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 23:50:06 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail06.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA05851 for executor@nacm.com; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 23:49:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 23:49:58 -0500 Message-ID: <951101234957_95764915@mail06.mail.aol.com> To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Speedometer 3.23 - 1.99p & 1.99p4 comparison Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Hi, I was hoping someone on the list might be able to shed some light on this. I saw it was mentioned on another post. I have used Speedometer 3.23 to benchmark each new release of Executor and while 1.99o and 1.99p were roughly comparable, there is an across the board LOSS of between 25 and 35% in 1.99p4. Have not had the time to try p5 yet, but I am concerned by this because the only thing which DID speed up is graphics which are almost twice as fast. This may sound like a good thing, but it probably only is for games, and almost all of what I do with Executor involves very little graphics and mostly other CPU work. Plus, it helps me make my Mac owning friends mad that I can run their programs too and they can't run mine. Does anyone have any suggestions what to try, or should I assume there was something previously wrong with Speedometer and its prior results are not to be believed. I am concerend because that is quite a performance penalty on the newest upgrade. I have a AT&T Globalyst 200 notebook computer. 12MB RAM, 486DX2 50 CPU, and Win95, but often I boot from a DOS diskette. I know it has a WD90C24 chipset. Could this be why it is all falling apart? Graphics too slow to give the rest "time" to keep up? Oh, and a long time ago someone mentioned ARDI was given a free copy of NT by someone with the Microsoft Employee store. Are there any plans for ever making a version of Executor for NT? I ask because what I have learned about it lately is that is really is the future of MS platforms and also I think it could be a great meeting point for legacy WinDOS code and Mac, since you could conceivably code it all as just another subsystem like the POSIX subsystem & the Win32 & OS/2 subsystems. That way either you could run some Mac apps seamless or have the "browser" as a task built right into the preemptive protected mode model. Just a thought... Greg M.