> Some time ago you posted speed comparisons of doing an all-areas rescan, 
 > with golded, timed and msged (from memory), and msged was significantly 
 > slower.

Yep.

 > Can you do the trials again and let me know what the results are?  
 > Thanks + bye.

Times are approximate (plus or minus 1 second).

Scanning 280 areas, all Squish format.  486DX2-66 with 8Mb RAM running OS/2
Warp Red.  Message base files are on a 125M FAT partition.  OS/2 cache size
for FAT partitions is 512K; lazy-writes are enabled.  DOS programs were
executed in an emulated OS/2-DOS session.

Msgedsq/2 3.30:      25 seconds
Msgedsq 3.30:        25 seconds
timEd 1.10:           9 seconds
timEd/2 1.10:        12 seconds
GoldED 2.50.beta6:   14 seconds
GoldED/2 2.50.beta6: 12 seconds

ZeeYa.  Andrew.

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