Anthony Tibbs wrote in a message to David Chord:
DC> Question. Does PacketSort actually speed up the entire processing time 
DC> (including it's own runtime) or does it slow down, or remain the same?
 AT> Speed it up.  BIG time.
Including when you have 1 or 2 messages for one echo, and do that several 
times a day, or does it slow things down because it finds that it really has 
nothing to do (as the messages are already in order and for the one area)
DC> I'd have my doubts as to wether or not it made any real differences 
DC> speed-wise, but it does appear to have several other usefull features 
DC> (like splitting large packets and sorting messages by date)
 AT> It does speed things up.  Think about it.  If Squish only has to
 AT> open a single area ONCE, rather than 50 or more times, will it not
 AT> be faster?  After all, each open requires a DOS "FAT
 AT> search"/directory search, etc.
See my previous message to all on this. 
Dave
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