-=> On 08-08-96  12:43, Robby Dittmann <=-
 -=> spoke to All about Squish vs. SQ386 <=-

 RD> I do my mail tossing on a 486 under WIN95.  It may just be 
 RD> my imagination, but SQUISH.EXE seems to run quicker than 
 RD> SQ386.EXE.  Is this true?  And if so, why?

 Same equipment, but using OS/2.   A while back I did some experiments
 and discovered that for me there was no real difference between SQUISHP
 and SQ386P. (the OS2 versions -- I could not get SQ386 to run for some
 reason).

 I posted a set of comparison times and in the discussion that followed
 it was stated that the 386 versions don't begin to shine until you have
 much larger packets than I have.   My packets tend to be 300 to 800
 messages at a time, 200K to 600K or so.   (I run maximus to support my
 own personal use on my point).   Folks with large BBS, tossing
 thousands of messages at a time, said that the 386 version worked
 better for them.   It may have extra load time/startup time and so I
 was not seeing the advantage of the more power.

 One thing I discovered as a result of that discussion is that you will
 get a very significant speed up factor if you do not use a number of
 message limit, but trim your database by time instead.   This is
 apparently well known to others, but was news to me.  It doubled my
 processing speed.

                             dale{at}mbbs.com
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