http://www.osxfaq.com/tips/ram/index.ws
Seems like a good idea, however, maxing out the RAM in a system would be best. If you are running OS X on 256 Megs of RAM, things can become slow, so a redraw might take more time than it needs to.
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many orders of magnitude faster a memory write is than a disk write, and anyway what I learned in school is likely way out-of-date.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.
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