Re: HardPressed/AutoArk...

[swh54716@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott W. Henson)]

fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:

>Stacker on the PC clones works *really* transparently... as far as I can tell.
>AutoDoubler on the Mac, and AutoArk for the ][gs all SLOW down the machine
>noticably.  I'm wondering how well HardPress can do...

>Reading from magazine/journals, Stacker actually makes booting into Windows
>slightly faster.  Because it takes fewer time to load compressed stuff.  I
>guess this is due to fast processors.  I think the ][gs definetly needs 
>some hardware to go with HP/AA.

>-- 
>Frank M. Lin     | IMG, California, U.S.A
>fmlin@netcom.com | need the faq of comp.sys.apple2?  e-mail me...

I have not used AutoArk (yet) on the ][gs.  However, I would say that the
slowdown due to AutoDoubler on the Mac is not very noticeable unless you are
working with files that are in excess of 5 MB.  The decompress/execute
process for most applications that you will encounter actually takes place
in nearly the same amount of time as execution from the uncompressed state,
and in some cases is actually faster.

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