Re: Wikipedia entry on XyWrite

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Those seconds add up and up and up. I do have to use MSW here and
there and I am always astounded at the annoying waiting times. Good
heavens, just invoking the 'find' command can take a perceptible
couple of seconds, depending on memory, disk activity, etc. Things
like that can really degrade your computing experience. Oh yes, there
are good reasons to use XyWrite!

At 6/14/2008 11:40 PM, you wrote:
> Harry Binswanger wrote:
> > Xy was about 1/4 second or less. Word took about 2 or 3 seconds.
> > So even in today's world, Xy remains faster. To be fair, however,
> > does anyone ever need more speed than what Word has? Are we
> > splitting hairs here (my program takes a nanosecond but yours takes
> > 4 nanoseconds)?
> Depends on what you need to do; speed matters a lot for me. When you
> run a search, search and replace, or cull across more than 200
> files/80 MB on a regular basis the seconds add up.
>
> Paul Lagasse