I bet it is the combination of the 16G RAM and SSD. I have the same CPU, but still get hung up paging. Trying to decide whether to blow money on an SSD, or just buy an Air (which comes with a "free" SSD :P). I know the CPU will be slower, but the SSD should make paging a non-issue.
On 2012-01-01, at 18:50, Raju Bitter wrote: > Wouldn't call me Santa... ;-) > > "Upgraded" an old workstation from 2003. Turns out, that the only > pieces I could still use with the new mainboard were Sata disks. I > just wonder if the new Macbook Pro's with the i7 CPUs are equally > fast. > > The machine has 16 GB of RAM now, and when I run a lot of programs in > my virtualized Windows 7 the machine never becomes sluggish. Tried to > hard to get OS X (10.6 or 10.7) running on it. 10.6 runs, but not all > hardware is supported. Prefer to have Linux as the base operating > system anyway. > > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 6:04 PM, P T Withington <[email protected]> wrote: >> The beauty of Moore's law. I take it you got a new computer from Santa? >> >> On 2012-01-01, at 09:26, Raju Bitter wrote: >> >>> Intel Core i7 2600k quad core with 3.4 Ghz and mSata SSD. Build time >>> with skip-docs=true is 90s. >>> >>> Compilation time SWF10 (empty canvas): less than 4 seconds >>> Compilation time DHTML (empty canvas): 2 seconds >>> >>> The first time the OpenLaszlo compiler feels fast again, since the 3.0 >>> release. :-) >>
