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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA03875 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 13:10:25 -0800 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id OAA01955; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 14:10:18 -0700 Received: from gwar.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0tB6qB-000YceC; Thu, 2 Nov 95 14:06 MST Received: by gwar.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0tB6qB-000GOwC; Thu, 2 Nov 95 14:06 MST Message-Id: <m0tB6qB-000GOwC@gwar.ardi.com> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 95 14:06 MST From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter) To: GMangen@aol.com Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Speedometer 3.23 - 1.99p & 1.99p4 comparison In-Reply-To: <951101234957_95764915@mail06.mail.aol.com> References: <951101234957_95764915@mail06.mail.aol.com> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "GMangen" == GMangen <GMangen@aol.com> writes: GMangen> Hi, I was hoping someone on the list might be able to GMangen> shed some light on this. I saw it was mentioned on GMangen> another post. I have used Speedometer 3.23 to benchmark GMangen> each new release of Executor and while 1.99o and 1.99p GMangen> were roughly comparable, there is an across the board GMangen> LOSS of between 25 and 35% in 1.99p4. Have not had the GMangen> time to try p5 yet, but I am concerned by this because GMangen> the only thing which DID speed up is graphics which are GMangen> almost twice as fast. This may sound like a good thing, GMangen> but it probably only is for games, and almost all of what GMangen> I do with Executor involves very little graphics and GMangen> mostly other CPU work. Plus, it helps me make my Mac GMangen> owning friends mad that I can run their programs too and GMangen> they can't run mine. There's a bug in Executor's new "auto-refresh" code that can cause it to turn on refresh mode when it shouldn't. This can happen in Speedometer. If you bring up the alt-shift-5 panel and see that refresh mode is on, that's the culprit. This should be fixed in 1.99p6. By the way, you might want to get 1.99p5 since it fixes a few serious bugs in 1.99p4. -Mat