Re: Balloon 2.0 - Slow!

[gsplusdiz@aol.com (GSPlusDiz)]

Various folks wrote about Balloon...

>>Hey, I wonder if anybody out there did ever notice the
>>slow speed Balloon v2.0 operates at. Shrinkit GS v1.1 is
>>twice as fast, up to four times as fast when shrinking
>>to/from floppy disk since it loads the data in
>>completely in RAM before shrinking. Hey, this is a bad
>>joke!!

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.

>>Well, on the other hand, who wonders, since all GS+
>>programs tend to be a bit slow. For example, why is
>>there this flickering all the time when adding/removing
>>pixels in ICE? Why is its Undo so terrible slow? Why the
>>flickering when saving a file?

ICE was developed on an unaccelerated system, and I never noticed
any "flickering" when adding/removing pixels.  It could be that you've
got an extension slowing things down there.... As for the flickering
when saving a file... it's because the entire text of that window is
in a control, and when the text changes the entire control is 
redrawn, which causes the flicker.  I admit that this is annoying,
but I didn't have time to change it.  Which brings me to your next
point...

>>Hey, EGO Systems, how about OPTIMIZED and FAST coding?

Well, we do try to make our stuff as OPTIMIZED and FAST as we can,
but we have these rotten publishing deadlines that get in the way
every two months.  They leave us little time for "fine tuning."  Sorry
about that...

>>My main complaint is the OA-A bug to select all files.  It 
>>freezes up the system, and forces a re-boot.  If you click "select all" 
>>with the mouse, it's fine...

We've heard of this bug from a couple of people, but we've NEVER been able
to reproduce it even once.  If someone out there can send us step by step
instructions on reproducing it (we've been trying for months now!) we'll
fix it!  (One thing I just thought of... does it only happen with SPECIFIC
archives?  Or does it happen with EVERY archive?  If it only happens with
a specific archive, send us that archive!)

 
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Steven W. Disbrow
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