The graphs below show the performance toll that
certain software causes. Navigator Gold 3.0 appears to cause
a overall diminished performance when it is an active background
application. It appears that the performance loss experienced
with Speech Recognition active can be recouped by putting
it into standby mode (tests showed that having SR set to respond
only when a key is pressed did not recoup this speed hit).
Test were performed on a Performa 6300. Testing was done using
MacBench 3.0. MacBench profiles popular software
programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Word 6.0 and QuarkXpress
among a variety of others and applies these profiles to the
various subsystems being tested. See this description
of what MacBench tests and how. Longer bars equals faster
performance.
*If you know of other software that takes a toll on performance
let me know*
CheckTicks data
showing the slow down caused by individual loaded extensions
in ticks per 10,000 calls to NextEvent
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