Hello Michael and all Arachnids; I finally made the time to compare version 1.6b1 to it's predecessors in terms of local load times and have some interesting results. I had to load a mouse driver to make it work.<g> This version is REALLY a pleasure to work with due to the automatic cursor focus switch to textarea when in the editor. It is VERY easy to hit F4 (yes I finally found out you don't have to view the source before editing it <g>), make a quick change and F2 to see the result. Very fast and easy. Strangely, this new version is measureably faster in all tested aspects of local use EXCEPT in manipulating the html from home/arachne.cz in which case it takes TWICE as long to load and refresh as 1.50b2. Hmmm ? See the second test group. As usual, all time trials are on a 33Mhz '486 with 8Mb ram and 640x480 VGA. I have included other browsers to allow some perspective. Opera was FULLY loaded on my ramdisk - cache included. Arachne is on a ramdisk (with command.com) with cache on the harddrive. TEMP is on the ramdrive and Cache2Temp is Yes. FastJPEGS is No. Netscape was 100% on the HARDDRIVE including the cache. The ramdisk was allocated but unused except to act as a memory equalizer for Netscape. All browsers had to retrieve image source files from the hard disk. Times are seconds with accuracy better than 5%. Browser Opera 3.5 Arachne 1.50b2 Arachne 1.60b1 Netscape2.02 Load BMP 610,696 134 3.8 3.0 Not possible Load GIF 73,559 8 4.5 4.0 4.5 170,146 10 4.8 4.3 5.0 231,849 12 5.0 4.4 5.0 306,395 15 6.0 5.5 6.5 Load JPG 185,935 33 26 24.6 19 33,235 16 15 14.5 9 BMP Bill.bmp 610,696 bytes 598x340 pixels GIF Satstorm.gif 73,559 bytes 800x500 pixels 256 colors Mir.gif 170,146 bytes 576x473 pixels 256 colors Nile.gif 231,849 bytes 522x522 pixels 256 colors Cartweel.gif 306,395 bytes 800x535 pixels 256 colors JPG Weather.jpg 185,935 bytes 640x477 pixels Allthree.jpg 33,235 bytes 400x499 pixels All files available for YOUR testing - please just ask. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Group two: Timing measurements under 5 Sec were made electronically. Browser Opera 3.5 Arachne 1.50b2 Arachne 1.60b1 Netscape2.02 Reload GIF from CACHE Cartwheel: 6.6 6.1 5.5 6.5 REFRESH DISPLAY Cartwheel: 0.9 6.3 5.5 0.36 GOTO PAGE END Cartwheel: 0.275 6.5 5.5 0.325 RELOAD JPG from CACHE Weather: 1.04 3.8 3.0 0.60 REFRESH DISPLAY Weather: 0.92 3.8 3.5 0.36 GOTO PAGE END Weather: 0.275 3.5 3.0 0.325 RELOAD HTML from CACHE Arachne Home: 1.2 (old) 3.0 (new) 6.5 (new) 2.2 REFRESH DISPLAY Arachne Home: 0.90 1.65 3.0 0.300 GOTO PAGE END Arachne Home: 0.375 1.0 2.0 0.230 LOAD and DISPLAY Options: 0.140 1.0 2.6/1.1/1.0 0.120 Preferences: 0.350 5.5/4.0 4.8/3.5/3.3 0.200 Modifications to page background: None /erased/ "" (removed name) Explanation: I have found that modifying the html for the screens to set BODY BACKGROUND="" produces a much faster screen load than just erasing the annoying .gifs.<g> I tested this by replicating the line 20 times and comparing times with a non-existant gif being searched for 20 times, with no search done 20 times. This makes a VERY big difference on slow '386s. I hope this is useful. - Clarence Verge -- - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ --
