Slow perfomance

David,

ok that’s clear he needs to cleanup the drawing and if I understand it correctly stardraw can only use 1 processor of a dual core processor, correct? but..

Will there be a patch for stardraw so it can also take advance of the second processor?



What if there can’t be cleaned (customer is searching but had no luck deleting anything from the drawing, he needs it all) and the customer still want to get stardraw work faster with that drawing, what can you advice for hardware specs (the best around).



thnx

Jordi

The loading of a file from disk is a serial, synchronous task and it would be a huge amount of work to get this one task to be multi-threaded for very little gain. The advantage of 2 processors is that while it is loading from disk, your machine can get on and do other things, like checking email, posting to forums etc. etc.

The biggest single thing that will make a difference to the performance of Stardraw opening large files is extra memory. If you are running XP, then you should have more than 512MB RAM. If you are running Vista, then increase this to at least 1GB RAM

If your customer still can't get his file smaller, please feel free to post us a link to the file where we can have a look at it and see if we can figure out where the size is coming from.

David Snipp
Stardraw.com Ltd