odd slow-down for PC save stack

[Ken Ray]

Phil,

How old is the PC? It's possible it has a very old/badly fragmented hard
disk...

Just a thought,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/


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> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Phil Jimmieson
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 7:38 AM
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> Subject: odd slow-down for PC save stack
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> I've got a project that saves user preferences and textual details of 
> the usage of the application into a mainstack and substacks separate 
> from the main application stack.  The main application stack and the 
> user data stacks were developed on a Mac (using Rev 2.1.2 and 2.2). 
> This system works fine on a Mac (and is almost instantaneous), but 
> when I try it on a PC, the save (which occurs each time there's a 
> piece of data generated by the application) seems to take an age (so 
> long, that at first I thought the program had hung). Of course, this 
> means that the application runs *very* *slowly* on a PC. If i run the 
> application without saving any data, it runs at a reasonable speed. 
> Can anyone think of a reason this slow down might be happening, and a 
> way around it?
> 
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