André, Mark,
Thanks for these suggestions. I've worked on Macs for years but I'm
thinking of switching to Windows 7. I understand it's been received
more warmly than Vista and as I'm spending more time switching back
and forth to make sure colors and fonts look reasonably the same in my
standalone on Windows as they do on my Mac I'm considering the switch.
For the last 4-5 years I'm on a Mac with 4 cores running at 2.66 with
2 GB of DDR2 RAM. I'm thinking of stepping up to an i7 with 6 cores
running at 3.3 GHz with 12 GB of RAM. My work doesn't involve video
rendering or anything special. It's simply a lot of processing data
and moving it to and from a remote server. Recently I've noticed
Revolution choking and ultimately freezing on very heavy tasks,
sometimes to the point that I'm forced to log back in. This could be
due to just 2 GB of DDR2 RAM or maybe it could be points on my aging
processor burning out.
Anyway, if you know of any issues with Revolution and Windows 7 on a
64 bit machine then please let me know.
Thanks,
Ray
On Aug 25, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:
Ray,
I don't think Rev is optmized for 64 bits or multiple cores. If the
host
system does some optimizations then it will benefit but then again,
everyone
will benefit.
I don't know if you're talking about windows, mac or linux on this
post but
double check if there is no issue with Windows 64 bits and Rev.
Windows
compatibility stuff for running 32 bits stuff under a 64 bits system
is not
as good as apples (so they say).
I think the best thing you can have for development is a HUGE
OBSCENE AMOUNT
OF RAM.
RAM is king! RAM trumps Gigaherts! RAM trumps CPU! This is
subjective, but
I'd rather have a core 2 duo with 8 GB of ram than a i5 with 2 GB of
RAM.
Unless you are doing heavy number crunching and video processing
will be
more delayed by your system abilities to use memory (paging stuff to
disk,
all those silly software allocating 2GB of RAM, yes firefox, I am
looking at
you) than by CPU being busy. It is my humble opinion that somewhere
after
pentium 3 or near, CPUs got so freaking fast that they usually wait
for you
or other subsystems instead of you waiting for them to process
something. My
machine is quite fast with its core 2 duo but with only 2GB of RAM,
I loose
too much time and performance when running virtualbox and browsers
and IDEs
at the same time.
You can never have enough RAM. If you have the money, check out how
much
maximum RAM your computer support and top it. You will not be sorry
and if
things go all right then you won't even notice anything because
things will
run smooth.
Also multiple cores are wonderful, use as many as you can. Rev
engine is not
optimized for multicore usage but the rest of your operating system
is so
there's a benefit.
Here on my work, one of our servers is a Dual Hexacore beast, so you
got 12
cores working, with HT then you got 24 threads available. That is
quite fast
with its 48GB of RAM. Of course this is a server and not a desktop
machine
but even though the cores are not too fast, having a lot of RAM and 24
threads beats CPU raw power and speed.
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Ray Horsley <r...@linkit.com> wrote:
Greetings,
Anybody know if Revolution uses 64 bit processing? Also, does
Revolution
make use of multiple cores? In other words, would Revolution take
advantage
of features like an i7 3.33 gig processor? Please make any other
suggestions regarding the optimal system for speed when working in
Revolution and making lots of LibURL calls
Thanks,
Ray Horsley
LinkIt! Software
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