Re: HardPressed/AutoArk...

[ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford)]

In a previous article, fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin) says:

>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.
>

As I understand it, the compression utilities on the PC machines improve
overall speed because the harddrives on those machines are actually read
more slowly than those on the Apple line.   Thus, the compressed files
reduce read time required and the faster processors perform their 
decompression quickly enough to preserve some of the time savings.

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

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