On 9 Aug 2005 at 16:00, Darcy James Argue wrote: > I believe it now works in the background, which I agree is a terrific > improvement.
This might very well be a benefit of the move of much of the temporary working space from disk to RAM. I'd be interested to know if under OS X you guys were stikll finding RAM disks helpful with pre-2006 Finale. We had a discussion of this a while back and I can't remember what was concluded. I'd have thought that OS X's modern industrial-strength virtual memory management would have made that obsolete, but I seem to remember that some of you were reporting that it still helped (which implies substantial inefficiency somewhere in the OS X disk caching subsystems). I'd think that this move of what used to be in temp files to RAM would finally obsolete the use of RAM disks as a performance enhancer (and make it into a performance drag). Any chance that anyone who is having substantial problems with Mac Finale 2006 is still using a RAM disk? This is not meant as any kind of criticism -- just a suggestion of something that people might not have thought about. Like my use of XCOPY for writing backup CD-R, it could be that an perfectly sound techniques that works with older software now causes problems. -- 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
