Apps on Flash Drive Advice

Terry Judd terry.judd at unimelb.edu.au
Thu Aug 28 01:34:51 EDT 2014


Make sure that you are using a quality USB stick as well. Some cheap and
nasty ones can be awfully slow.

Terry...

On 28/08/2014 3:25 pm, "Bill Vlahos" <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:

>Charles,
>
>InfoWallet is also designed to be run from a USB drive as well as from a
>hard disk. There are a lot of advantages in doing so. The only limitation
>I see running from a USB drive is how long it takes to load the data file
>or save the data file. The larger the data file the longer it takes
>because USB access is much slower than to a hard drive.
>
>LiveCode apps typically load completely into memory and then run. It
>might take a bit longer to load from a USB drive than hard disk but once
>loaded should run the same unless data or preferences are updated during
>program run.
>
>How and when does your app read or write to disk? Reduce or eliminate any
>reading or writing to disk to reduce the performance penalty.
>
>Bill Vlahos
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>On Aug 27, 2014, at 5:55 PM, Charles Szasz <cszasz at me.com> wrote:
>
>> I have an app that was designed to run on the desktop on school
>>computers, which are mostly windows based. However, the app may have to
>>run on flash drive because of administrator's issues.
>> 
>> I know I will have to disable preferences that I had for the desktop
>>version. I have already tried my app on a flash drive with a school
>>computer.  It runs but seems a bit slow.   Any advice on how to maximize
>>the performance of an app running on a flash drive?
>> 
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