On 21 Aug 2004 at 17:35, Robert Patterson wrote: > It is true that modern hard disks are faster and have sophisticated > built-in caching, but memory is faster too.
Does OS X not have disk caching built in? On Windows, RAM disks have not been a help for well over a decade, because the low-level disk caching would cache the TEMP files in RAM (even though they were stored on disk), which was just as fast as writing them to a RAM disk. I've never quite understood this enormous difference between Mac and Windows -- why does Apple apparently not make use of modern disk caching techniques (I'm assuming it doesn't if a RAM disk speeds things up)? -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
