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cybmole · 01-12-2015, 01:11 AM

i pu tthe portable version into ram and addad an open with keyboard shortcut to calibr for it.
then I went looking for where stored find/replace code was saved & somehow managed to lose all the ones in my original install when trying to copy them to portable.
but after more testing, I think the portable & the main versions maintain independent search records and do happily co-exist.
as for speed, well the 1st use of main version with no book seems to take about 4 seconds to initialize, the ram version is almost instant. the extra time needed to prep an existing book for edit is probably same in both ?
it's not that I need to save 4 seconds of my day, I as just puzzled as to why such a small footprint program loads more slowly than others of comparable size. i guess it is to to when what language it is written in, I note that foobar2000 also needs 2-3 seconds, & that's tiny.

PS- the other rationale is: having bought extra RAM, I am now looking for creative uses of RAM Drive in order to justify the waste of money

01-12-2015, 01:11 AM	#3
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	i pu tthe portable version into ram and addad an open with keyboard shortcut to calibr for it. then I went looking for where stored find/replace code was saved & somehow managed to lose all the ones in my original install when trying to copy them to portable. but after more testing, I think the portable & the main versions maintain independent search records and do happily co-exist. as for speed, well the 1st use of main version with no book seems to take about 4 seconds to initialize, the ram version is almost instant. the extra time needed to prep an existing book for edit is probably same in both ? it's not that I need to save 4 seconds of my day, I as just puzzled as to why such a small footprint program loads more slowly than others of comparable size. i guess it is to to when what language it is written in, I note that foobar2000 also needs 2-3 seconds, & that's tiny. PS- the other rationale is: having bought extra RAM, I am now looking for creative uses of RAM Drive in order to justify the waste of money Last edited by cybmole; 01-12-2015 at 01:58 AM.