Save time question

[Curtis Clifton]

On Dec 20, 2004, at 5:57 PM, Bruce Tambling wrote:

> The new version 3.0 takes over 1 minute to save a 3.5 meg file.
>
> And saving dominates my entire system (OSX 10.3.5) rendering it 
> useless for
> anything until save process is complete.
>
> Any plans to improve save time in the future.
>
> Is this a known issue?
>
> Also, when autosave kicks in the application freezes until complete.

I second this critique.  My biggest outline is 1.5 MB, it only takes 3 
seconds to save on my Dual 1GHz, G4, but the fact the the UI blocks 
during the save is very disconcerting.  The blocking is bad enough that 
I'm tempted to turn off the auto-save feature.  (I also tried turning 
on compression, the file size was reduced to 0.5MB and the save time 
was essentially unchanged.)

Could some or all of the saving process be done in a background thread 
so the UI doesn't block?

Curt

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Curtis Clifton, PhD Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cclifton