On 21 Aug 2004 at 16:44, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Darcy James Argue wrote: > > > So, no RAM disk in 10.3 and up. Maybe Coda can be persuaded to just > > store the damn temp files in memory, already, like every other > > modern application? > > Um, thats not true. Adobe, Microsoft, almost everything I can think of > uses temp files........hence the name, temporary files......
Well, on Windows, files that are often opened and written to disk (as temp files are) will likely be read from and written to RAM because of the built-in disk caching that Windows has offered for well over a decade. Indeed, without that disk caching, Windows would be unusable (I've experimented with turning it off in earlier versions of Windows and it bogs things down to the point of complete unusability; even on systems with small amounts of RAM, the RAM allocated to the disk cache actually improves performance dramatically). I'd be surprised if a modern OS like OS X did not have sophisticated disk caching built in and turned on that would have more benefit than the same amount of RAM dedicated to a RAM disk. -- 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
