Any Questions about or Suggestions for the next release?

[Steve Lamb]

Tuesday, August 31, 1999, 7:48:42 AM, Agents wrote:
> 2. More multithreading. The developers need to test the system on a slow
> computer, i.e., 66 MHz 486, and under normal operating conditions, i.e.,
> folders with large numbers of messages in them, and add multithreading
> wherever things take more than 0.1 s to complete, i.e, the common decision
> point for whether to add multithreading or not. It is not acceptable to use
> 200 MHz+ Pentium as a benchmark machine.

    Multithreading is not the end-all, be-all answer.  Some operations, no
matter what the speed of the computer, *WILL* take time.  You also have to
remember that the program is straddled with the overhead of the OS that it is
running under.  486DX2-66's are nice Linux boxes, but I would never, *EVER*
recommend them for Windows anymore because of the immense amount of bloat in
the OS unless they have an ungodly amount of RAM (128Mb) and a faster machine
does not.

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