#: 14973 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    14-Apr-92  12:19:15
Sb: #14968-#AR Upgrade
Fm: Lee Veal 74726,1752
To: Carl Kreider 71076,76 (X)

 Carl,
 Here are some responses to your recent query about new AR speed.
 Lee

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 From:    David Wordell                            Rec'd
 To:      Lee Veal                                 Msg #73, 09-Apr-92 01:22pm
 Subject: Re: New AR developments...

  (From Carl Krieder on CIS)
 > How much of a speed hit are folks willing to absorb for
 > new features in AR?  Reason being that better compression
 > might require keeping tables on disk, thus slowing AR
 > by a factor of 10 or more.

 Lee,
    It would depend on whether the new method added so much
 time searching through tables that it made the actual total
 process of downloading, then extracting, longer. If it did
 then I would go for the old method, or at least up to the
 features in version 1.5. We are fortunate in that we do not
 see the memory hogging file sizes seen in MS-DOS so I think
 we should be concerned with ease of use.

 David

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 From:    Daniel Hauck                             Rec'd
 To:      Lee Veal                                 Msg #74, 09-Apr-92 05:07pm
 Subject: Re: New AR developments...

 

 I would be willing to take a really big hit, but using "data modules" I don't
 see where it would be necessary.  But then again, I have never used data
 modules.  At any rate, I would be willing to take a hit in speed, but I guess
 I don't want it to take two hours on the average file either.

 dan...



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