Wow, that's indeed a dramatic improvement.
Just to eliminate the possibility, do you know for a fact that they are both
configured to run HotSync at the same speed? I'd be interested in finding
that out.
Thanks,
- Sudeep
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon, Douglas [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 5:15 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: Sending large PDB files to the Palm
>
>
> >I have a large pdb file with over 15000 records that i need to send to
> the
> >palm
>
> >You may have better results if you can combine several records together,
> >both for sync time reasons as well as to save memory on the device, since
> >there's several bytes of overhead for each record.
>
> >Also, you should retest using Palm OS 3.5 on the devices, since the code
> >was enhanced to speed up the record creation process for precisely this
> >scenario. The improvement is dramatic, I understand.
>
> >-David Fedor
> >Palm Developer Support
>
> My app's record count depends on the user's original data file, but I have
> a
> couple of customers with record counts approaching 20,000. One guy with a
> new IIIxe (OS 3.5) reported that his database took only about 15 minutes
> to
> download (about 19,000 records, 1.8Mb total size). Another person, who
> must
> have been using a pre-3.5 device, reported over an hour to download
> databases with about 14,000 records. I was wondering why the big
> difference
> until I saw your post.
>
> Doug Gordon
> GHCS Software
>
>
>
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