David,
I'm running against v3.1 of the OS. This _is_ a run once throw-away - but
for my users, not me. The biggest database takes about 35 seconds to load,
which isn't intolerable, but I did want to do everything I could to reduce
that.
Thanks,
Mark Peters
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>From: David Fedor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Perf improvement advice?
>Date: Fri, Jul 16, 1999, 3:49 PM
>
>>... Is
>>there a way to tell the system to create all the chunks for N records in one
>>call? Even if there is, will that help, i.e., will that result in fewer
>>calls to PrvChunkNew?
>
> No, but what version of the Palm OS are you running this on? The
> performance of the memory allocation (and compaction) improved both in 3.0
> as well as in 3.1 - in 3.1 I bet it is quite a bit faster, though I haven't
> run metrics. I don't recall if 3.2 is better than 3.1 in this regard.
>
> If this is a throwaway app that you just need to work once, run it on
> something with the very latest ROM for best performance. (Gee, that's not
> a statement that usually applies to operating systems; usually they get
> slower! So far we've been holding the line reasonably well, I think,
> probably because we haven't been bumping up the processor along with
> Moore's law.)
>
> -David Fedor
> Palm Developer Support
>
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