On 23 Aug 2004 at 15:35, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > >I'm confused: you seem to be saying OS X has disk caching but doesn't > > use it. > > > >Am I misunderstanding? > > > >If not, I can't make sense of such a situation. > > No no, I'm saying that they both do, but whether or not it is going to > make a huge difference with Finale I would say probably not. If > anything, perhaps storing the temp files on a defragmented, separate > partition would make a difference.
If it doesn't make a difference, then it isn't at all the same kind of disk caching that Microsoft has implemented in Windows the the last 10 years -- that disk caching makes an *enormous* difference, and makes a RAM disk for temp files completely unnecessary precisely because the disk cache means that frequently-used files are already in RAM, in the disk cache. -- 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
