Re: RAM5 GS/OS Driver Version 1.5

[webmaster@cardshow.com (Michael Guitton)]

In article <4ut55u$scm@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>In article <webmaster-1308961739350001@pm5-185.sct.fr>,
>Michael Guitton <webmaster@cardshow.com> wrote:
>>I recently discovered on the Macintosh the ShrinkWrap utility (by Chad
>>Magendanz). If such a product was available under GS/OS (a combination of 
>>GS+ Replicator/Balloon and Nathan Mates' Swatdisk [!?] :), I would buy it
>>(or pay the $hareware fee)!
>
>   I believe that I documented the IPC calls to the Swatdisk driver in
>the public release of Swatdisk. (Sorry, don't feel like verifying that
>right now... and if I didn't, I could release it no problem). It's up
>to the authors of Balloon to add in the functionality to their
>programs-- it's really trivial.
>
Indeed you did it.

Here is the result of the RAM5 benchmark:

               w/ Apple        w/ resizable      w/o any driver
              RAM5 driver       RAM5 driver

linear read*     ~0,75             ~0.96             ~4,65 (!)
random read*     ~1.80             ~1.78             ~8,92 (!)
OS overhead*     ~0.34             ~0.41             ~0.43

* in ms

-- 
Michael
webmaster@cardshow.com