Re: [Summary-Talk] Summary Speed

[John May <jmay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is this still the case?  Does the command-line OS X version do DNS 
lookups considerably quicker than the gui (finder) based OS X version?

	- John


>On 3/23/03 11:39 AM John May (jmaymailing@pointinspace.com) wrote:
>
>>We just moved Summary from OS 9 to OS X.  It seems considerably
>>slower on OS X.  Could this be the case?  Is the CLI version faster
>>on OS X than the normal GUI-based version?
>
>All of the different versions should run at almost exactly the same
>speed, on similar hardware, except for DNS lookups. Because of various
>issues with how the DNS lookups are done there are three distinct speeds
>they might run at on the different platforms.
>
>The Macintosh Classic version of Summary running on OS X does DNS lookups
>very very slowly. This is to work around a serious problem in how Apple
>supports DNS lookups in Carbon applications under OS X.
>
>The Macintosh Classic version of Summary running on OS 9, and the Windows
>versions, do DNS lookups at a medium speed.
>
>The OS X Command Line, Linux, and Sun versions of Summary do DNS lookups
>very quickly. These versions are able to use the ares library, which is
>much faster than using the system supplied DNS lookups.
>
>Jason
>
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>Jason@Summary.Net
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