Radical slowdown on one system

[Richard Gaskin]

Ken Ray wrote:

>> Of the many folks using my MC-base WebMerge product over the
>> last two years, I've never had a support case like this one,
>> and am hoping some of you may be able to offer some insight:
>> 
>> When I run the WebMerge tutorial here on the slowest machine
>> I have (Win 95,
>> 300MHz), it generates the tutoprial pages in 3.9 seconds.   I have a
>> customer running Win98 on a 1.7GHz maxchine and the same
>> files take 4 minutes to process.(!)
>> 
>> Most of what WebMerge does is parsing and concatenating text,
>> and of course creating files.  Not particularly
>> atom-splitting stuff, and I've never seen a performance
>> disparity even close to this.
>> 
>> I've verified that we're using the same fles, have the same
>> version of WebMerge (using the MC 2.4.2 engine), and in all
>> other respects his system is far superior to the one I've
>> been testing on.
>> 
>> Any clues?
>
> Memory? I know that this can cause major slowdowns if there's not enough
> RAM.

No:  he has at least twice as much RAM as me.

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