Author: Jo Even (hordaland.dnb.no)
Date: 01-03-2002 11:20
Fat Rakoon wrote:
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> GEMBENCH clearly runs a hell of a pace,
As you're already been told, GEMBench is not a reliable benchmark, especially not in a multitasking environment.
> You can see it fly! - but in the
> realworld, its still far slower then Magic
> is on the TT
I have both MiNT and MagiC (6.01 IIRC) on my TT, and I can't say that this is true in my case. MagiC appears to have a slightly faster GUI, but it's not faster than MiNT/N.AES when loading and executing applications. If MiNT/N.AES is dramatically slower than MagiC on your TT, there must be something odd about your MiNT-setup. More information (mint.cnf, n_aes.cnf, autofolder, desktop etc) would be helpful here.
> - Is this really how bad MiNT is compared
> to Magic?
Flamebait? ;-)
> Right, the biggest problem I have, is disk
> access speed. I have the NEWFATFS set up,
This is one area where FreeMiNT easily outruns MagiC on my TT... I see you have HD-Driver 7.5, this is XHDI-compliant so this should not be the problem. Have you enabled the writeback-cache in mint.cnf? With this disabled things will normally be just as slow as TOS.
> I also have VFAT on, on all drives except
> C: but they will not give me any speed
> improvement, or LFNs - any ideas?
Hmm, no long filenames? Odd... Have you checked with FSetter that NEWFATFS and VFAT really is enabled? I'd really like to take a closer look at your setup to see what's wrong.
> Papyrus Office is marginally over 1MB, on
> the TT, its instant under Magic - maybe
> half a second pehaps, but under MiNT, its
> about 4 seconds???- this is worse under
> GEMul8r, maybe 6 or 7 seconds?
Well, under GEMulator this will obviously be slow, because AFAIK there's no XHDI-compliant driver for it. The slowness on the TT is almost certainly caused by the cache and/or NEWFATFS being disabled.
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