"David W. Fenton" wrote:
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).
There is a RAM Disk application I've been using with Finale 2004/5 under OS X 10.3.9 - and it definitely speeds things up. (I can't remember the name of it at the present time being on a different computer.)
It is a hassle having to remember to turn it on before starting Finale, and then check whether the Temp files are being written to it, but it's worth it, especially when using large scores.
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