loading time much faster on slower machine

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Thu Aug 1 17:46:12 EDT 2013


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> Might be a strange question, but.. do you have an external (usb) drive
> hooked up to the faster machine and not the slower?

Nope.  The only thing connected is the same model of external monitor
as is on the
slower machine.  And this happens with it disconnected as well.

 > Also, you said 16gb on the old mac,
> are you talking of first load of LC and your program or subsequent?
>  (making sure things aren't cached)  I assume plenty of memory in the i7
> too though so the cache thing is most likely NOT it anyway.

Not that; both are 16Gb, and this is the first, seventh, and
what-have-you.  (with
strict compilation on, loading and unloading is quite common, as it
chokes thinking
variables are shadowing themselves.  Sometimes removing from memory is enough).



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