The launcher is known to have significant performance problems in 3.5. I'm
not sure why it would be much slower than pervious OS launchers though.
In any case, performance is being addressed. I can't really comment on
time frames or specific plans, but in the current OS the need to handle
large number of databases in the launcher is what we call a third party
opportunity :->
Russ Webb
Palm OS Engineer
>I had the same problem but recieved no replies from the list! I'm not ure
>what's going on here, because you're right - it seems pretty much
>unusable. Even on my Vx with Tornado V running to speed things up by 100%
>!
>
>Does any know if the dr4 ROM release is the same ROM that's on the new 3.5
>devices? I was thinking of getting a IIIc to try out the color stuff but
>there's no point if it's going to be bloody annoying to use!
>
>Cheers
>
>James
>
>On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Tom Zerucha wrote:
>
>> I tried out PalmOS 3.5 (dr4) on my palm V (upgraded to 8Mb). I have
>> several hundred databases, mainly midi files and QuoVadis maps.
>>
>> The application launcher takes FOREVER to come up and to display
>> something like the info dialog.
>>
>> This is so slow (as well as some of the other apps which seem to be
>> doing similar calls - maybe in the sort routine?) that it renders it
>> almost unusable.
>>
>> The one thing I really like is the 200K+ dynamic heap.
>>
>> (There are some incompatible applications which might or might not
>> have affected my decision to continue trying this out)
>>
>>
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