On 23 Aug 2004 at 18:37, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 23 Aug 2004, at 06:25 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > I'm confused: you seem to be saying OS X has disk caching but > > doesn't use it. > > No. I'm saying OS X has disk caching, and a RAM disk in OS X doesn't > speed things up (or at least, doesn't speed up Finale). > > Robert Patterson thought using a RAM disk in OS X would speed up > Finale, but he'd never tried it. So far, everyone who's actually > tried it (including me) noticed no speed gain, and sometimes a slight > speed hit.
That would be completely consistent with the situation in Windows. And it would stand to reason, as you're using up more RAM for the RAM disk, and not actually changing where the files are read from/written to (the disk cache means they are already in RAM). -- 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
