Msg: Re: speed of vdosplus

Hi John,

The executable you sent me is build 2016.08.05. The differences between this build and the later 2016.08.14 build you mentioned earlier are support for small text, block comments and mouse wheels. I don't think the block comment feature will impact the XyWrite running speed in any way because the config file is only read at the start. To see if the mouse wheel support feature may cause the speed change, you can try disabling this feature by setting WHEELMOD=0 or WHEELMOD=0,0 in the newer build and see how it works. I have not noticed the speed difference in my own computer yet, so I cannot say it myself. Hope this helps.

Wengier

On Friday, September 23, 2016 12:41 PM, John Paines wrote:

Wengier,

I found an earlier version of vdos-lfn, 1216KB, with a date stamp of early August (which may not not reflect the actual creation date). I tried to attach it, but the system apparently won't accept files; I'll send it to your personal yahoo address, listed on the vdosplus page.

Using the same config.txt file, it's notably faster than current vdosplus, in the backwards "previous page" test. Hope all this isn't an hallucination or some grievous error on my part.....

From: Wengier W
To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxx"
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: speed of vdosplus

Hi John,

I think you really should retain an older version of vDosPlus (vDos-lfn) for comparison. This way it will be much clearer if something has indeed happened to the speed and responsiveness to the more recent versions, and I will probably be able to sort things out very quickly. Without this I cannot currently really think of a particular change in recent versions that will negatively affect is speed or responsiveness (and in fact this can not be confirmed at all for now), but most likely it is simply because of some settings in your config.txt. If you are able to compare the current version with an older version of vDosPlus (vDos-lfn), it will be much easier to find out what exactly has happened.

Wengier

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On Friday, September 23, 2016 8:36 AM, John Paines wrote:

Wengier,

Hate to sound thankless, but I think something has happened to the speed and responsiveness

of the most recent vdos-lfn/vdosplus versions, June 2016 vdos build. Unfortunately, I can't date it to a particular recent version.

The only older version I've retained for comparison is vdosxy3. The easiest test is paging backwards through a long document, holding down the "previous page" command, so that its repeats. The difference likely won't ruin anyone's life, but vdosxy3 is at least twice as fast (with xy3). Could be I'm mistaken, but I don't believe this was always the case(?)