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Originally Posted by sealbeater
Well, I guess I'll just continue to trust my automation. I'll take the author's word over the store's also.
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Well, consider who's website it was (the christopherstasheff in the name might be a gentle hint)? As for Stasheff's own words in the 2017 introduction to the reissue, he considered
A Wizard in Absentia to be a bridge joining the two series. Actually, I found the 2017 introduction to be rather humourous. Bloody readers noticing throwaway lines...
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Originally Posted by sealbeater
Well, tell you what. Why don't you do an *actual* real world test and find out? You are assuming Calibre's performance follows a linear curve. it doesn't. Try it for yourself. I did.
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Having nothing better to do, I generated a library by exporting my 172,000 book library, renaming all the books in the export, re-importing them, rinse and repeat 5 times. This gave me a library with over 1 million books. Restart calibre in debug mode and calibre was up and running in 44 seconds. Hey, it gave me something to do while keeping an eye on the monitoring software (which is about a thrilling as watching paint dry 99.9% of the time). Am I to conclude that doubling that library size will result in the startup time increasing by 2100%? Hockey sticks anyone? Or simply that my hardware is so much better than yours?
I will also say that is my last post in this thread. Given some of your posts here and elsewhere, there are better uses for my time.
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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” Thomas Paine