Re: Balloon 2.0 - Slow!

[kgagne@iii2.iii.net (Ken Gagne)]

Alexander Siegfried (ug0a@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) wrote:

: Diz writes:
: >As others have noted, the main speed advantage of
: >Balloon is that when you use it you don't have to
: >quit your current application and run GS-ShrinkIt.
: >But, beyond that, the main reason for the speed
: >difference is that Ballon is an NDA and it has to
: >live INSIDE an application.  So, it might not be able
: >to grab all the memory needed to load a file
: >completely into memory (like GS-ShrinkIt does), so,
: >it plays it safe, which can sometimes mean playing it
: >slow.

: ...and exactly this fact makes Balloon v2.0 in my opinion
: completely worthless. With this speed problem the Balloon NDA
: offers no advantage over Shrinkit GS 1.01 for the user. You
: can switch to Shrink It! GS, decrunch files and return to the
: (comm)since Balloon can not decrunch files in the background (which
: would be impossible to do in Spectrum anyway because of the
: interrupts).

: So why pay $20 bucks for less features and less speed if you
: can have more features and more speed for free?

Because its easy to access. If I had PMPUnzip NDA, I would absolutely
never have to leave Spectrum. I got it all right there... telecom & 
scripts, IR NDA, Sonobox & Minstrel NDAs, ShowMe! NDA, Balloon, CDevs, 
Media Controller... What else could I need? :)

-Ken Gagne

: Sorry to sound that negative on Balloon v2.0, but perhaps
: some people agree with what I've written...

: Christopher