[geeks] OSX optimizations

[sammy ominsky]

On Wednesday, Jan 22, 2003, at 15:49 US/Eastern, David Cantrell wrote:

> How bad is it, really?


Bigendian and I did a comparison.

His: Pismo G3/500 512RAM 100MHz bus OS 10.1 UFS
Mine: Wallstreet G3/250 256RAM 83MHz bus OS 10.2.2 HFS+

Mine is half his in most respects, and you'd expect it to be trounced 
in any speed competition. But it was horribly opposite. Mine was ready 
to use in about a minute from power-on, and I had all my usual apps 
open in a matter of seconds thereafter.

His took nearly seven minutes to reach the same state, and anything 
that required disk access took insanely longer on his machine than 
mine. Sad, really. It made the Wallstreet quite happy-looking to me.


---sambo