Hi Robert,
The OS X RAM disk application is called RAMbunctious -- available here.
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14621>
I *have* actually tried it (though not recently) and Finale wasn't perceptibly faster. In fact, it seemed slightly slower.
I will try again now, just to be sure.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
On 21 Aug 2004, at 06:25 PM, Robert Patterson wrote:
But presumably Finale would run much faster with a ram disk even in OSX. Finale was originally developed in an era when 1 MB was a huge amount of memory. As a result, it uses temporary files rather than memory to hold data.
Surely even now, writing temp data to memory rather than disk is more efficient. I've forgotten how many orders of magnitude faster a memory write is than a disk write, and anyway what I learned in school is likely way out-of-date. But the difference is still substantial. That's why computers have memory.
Deploying a ram disk for Finale's temp files is almost certainly a very good idea, even in OSX. (FWIW: Windows has had "sophisticated virtual memory" management for a decade or more in its NT track, but I wouldn't hesitate to use a ramdisk with Finale there.) The ideal solution would be if AppDisk (or something like it) were available for OSX. Then you could easily give back the ramdisk to the OS when Finale wasn't running.
Darcy James Argue wrote:Hi Robert,
You can get a RAM disk for OS X, but that's actually a bad idea because it screws up OS X's sophisticated virtual memory management. You are better off saving them to the desktop, where you can easily check if it's being emptied properly (i.e., if the folder persists after quitting Finale, it wasn't deleted properly and you can drag it to the trash).
- Darcy
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On 21 Aug 2004, at 05:55 PM, Robert Patterson wrote:Concerning speed issues with MacFin04:
If you are trying to use it in OS9, don't bother. It is unusable there. In OSX it isn't bad. I've heard that emptying the temp file folder helps a great deal. (Indeed, on OS9 it helps to redirect them to a ram disk. If such is available on OSX, I'm sure it would help there too.)
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