BCLERK -vs- ROLC [was: Re: Getting there quickly...]

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:52:41PM -0400, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:
> Bob Stockler wrote:
> [...]
> > But it's difficult to tell whether one or the other - BCLERK
> > or ROLC - is faster.  Both are instantaneous.
> [...]

> Back in Tandy 6000 days, when "twice as fast" meant 15 seconds versus
> 30 seconds, it meant a lot.  Today, when it means  15 milliseconds
> versus 30 milliseconds, it has less meaning.  :-)

But that was when the biggest disk drives for ANY machine were
about 70MB.  

As size and power increases so do programs which put more load on a
system.

I'd love to cut the processing time on some things I've done
recently by 1/2.  One the other day, a 2-pass for variable bit rate
encoding with DVD quality [not DV quality] was about 11 hours
from start to finished output.  About 4 hours of that was
the first pass to get the correct parameters for VBR.

But this machine is a slow 2.4GH P4 with HTT and 512MB RAM :-(
Just about 1200 times faster than my first PC and about 800 times
faster than my old T6K before the upgrade for the Xenix 3.??? -
that made things run faster with about a 20-50% CPU speed up.

> Like the name "QuikStart", which meant things like the Medical Office
> System could be loaded in 20 seconds instead of 2 minutes.

What a godsend that program was.  I never had any that took 2
minutes to load but a great many that took about 45 seconds, and QS
took it to about 5.

Speed is relative to the job at hand.


Bill

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