[regex-coach] Re: Regex Coach

[Edi Weitz]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:28:25 +0200 (CEST), Maciej Żenczykowski <maze at cela.pl> wrote:

> Perhaps, but a 1GHz CPU shouldn't be considered that old (my laptop
> is a Celeron 400 - now that IS old, but still perfectly good for
> much of my work).  A Pentium M 2.0 GHz runs a good 3-4 times faster
> than a p3 1ghz. Note, that based on measuring how long it takes to
> delete 10 characters in a comment at the end (15s), the corrected
> time is 1.5s/char, so 3-4 times faster is <0.5s which may indeed be
> fast enough???

There must be some other reason the app behaves slow on your machine.
I can delete characters from the end of the comment as fast as I can
delete them in, say, Word.

> VMware won't slow down an application like the regex coach (much) as
> there are few places were HDD or Hardware (screen, etc.) is
> accessed.  I expect regex coach under VMware runs at around 80-95%
> of full speed.

Yes, probably.  I just wanted to check that the Linux version isn't
significantly slower than the Windows version.

Cheers,
Edi.