Ever since I got my diskcaching installed, I've grown use to the speed of Arachne. When I had to use IE at the hospital I about went bonkers waiting for pages to load and appear. But that was Arachne 1.50s.r.c. and with the new 1.60b1 I'm beginning to feel like I'm using someone else's software again. At first it was a matter of it seeming to take just a tick or two longer to trash or move a file when reading mail. But today I realized it was taking just toooooo long to do anything in Arachne b1 compared to src. So I started paying attention to that "time line" that was added on the bottom with this newest version [unnecessary BLOAT TMWOT]. I wanted to copy some spam to a file and read in ascii to have full look at headers. Hitting F10 for desktop took 8 seconds to get new screen, go to all files and it was 7 seconds to get directory [no logos, thankyou], click on the \\ to get access to all drives and it's another 8 seconds wait, move from root to subdirectory on RAMdrive, 6 seconds ... going back wasn't bad since it was just pages from cache. At least it wasn't bad until I got back to Inbox where I started. Although the message was in cache, since I'd already read the trash once, I shouldn't have had to wait an additional 8 seconds for the page to be loaded .. should I????? It felt almost as bad as before I installed cache. So I shelled out and got a report from my ncache. Where I normally get a hit ratio of 98-99% with s.r.c. I'm only getting hit ratio of 89% with 1.60b1. Something is kludged somewhere. I'm also getting video problems after using Arachne; I don't know it that is traceable to Arachne or not ... I'm still trying to run that down. l.d. -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
