Ok, call it magic, but what is it really. Is the Handheld Manager
overrunning a buffer and reallocating a large chunk of memory?
Steve
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Subject: RE: Installing a PDB file takes a lot of time
>There's no magic, its just that every one of those records causes a sync
>manager function to be called. Function calls take time, and data transfer
>takes time.
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>Not quite as many as you did. I know there is some magic about something
>related to numbers and records, but I don't think you've exceeded the magic
>yet. Could be wrong though.
I think there IS some magic, that is, I seem to recall from when I dealt
with this problem and there was a discussion a while back (NO, I haven't
researched the discussion on eGroups), that the transfer is non-linear,
that is, once you get to a certain large number of records, things slow
down more dramatically. I also seem to recall that Palm was promising to
fix this in the new HotSync Manager (by which I think they meant
primarily the handheld manager, i.e., OS 3.5, and not the desktop
manager), and I have also seen faster times (VERY subjective) with a new
IIIc. But I haven't quantitated this for a database of size X on old vs.
new so for the moment these are strictly impressions, not data. If I do
get any hard data, I'll post it here.
Steve Patt
President, Stevens Creek Software
http://www.stevenscreek.com/palm
Best PQA ("ePQA"), PalmSource 99
Best Application ("PizzaScan"), Palm Developer's Conference 1998
First printing software for the Palm - September, 1997
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