Re: Varied IIgs Q's

[LOSETHECAPITALWORDSedhel@bigfoot.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)]

Subject:      Re: Varied IIgs Q's
From:         pubpc1@library.ucla.edu (Scott G.)
Date:         1997/06/04
Message-Id:   <5n4a2g$us8@uni.library.ucla.edu>
Newsgroups:   comp.sys.apple2
>LOSETHECAPITALWORDSedhel@bigfoot.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.) wrote:
>>Ooooookaaaayyy...maybe my benchmarks attained from when my Sider was
>>on my //e are not quite the same as the ones I just got on my IIgs:
...
>>==============BunchaLittleFiles===OneBiggerFile===
>>To Apple 5.25-------14:17------------00:35
>>To Apple 3.5--------08:18------------00:13
>>To Sider------------03:30------------00:07
>Edhel, I'm interested in what copy speeds you obtain under the
>Finder.  The Finder uses a session copy technique and GS/OS
>can disk cache for slow drives.  I'll bet you'll get even faster
>speeds.

I did just that!  It did go about 3x faster in the BunchaLittleFiles
test--so fast, in fact, that I hardly saw the hard drive run at
all--even while I deleted the files.  I believe GS/OS's disk cache-ing
is keeping me from getting accurate results :(
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