Speed Test: 11.5 vs 11.1

[APE Design Ctr]

Here is a very interesting test I just completed.

First of all I have 2 machines:

1. G5, Dual 1.8G, 2G RAM. OSX 10.4, VW 11.1

2. G5, Dual 2.5G, 2.5G RAM, OSX 10.4, VW 11.5

Both machines are completely updated and are running only Vectorworks.

The test consisted of updating a viewport in a drawing. Same file, same viewport. Now, looking at the machines, you would expect that machine #2 should kick Machine #1 pretty badly...

Well, here are the results.

Update Viewport on #1 with 11.1: 5:36

Update Viewport on #2 with 11.5: 6:56

The slower machine running less RAM on 11.1 is a whole 1 minute, 20 seconds quicker than machine #2, which should be far more capable.

Eddie

[MullinRJ]

Hello Eddie,

How big are the hard drives, and have they been defragmented recently?

Raymond

[APE Design Ctr]

Hi Ray,

Hard Drive on the larger machine is 120 Gig. It has about 60 Gig of free space. The other drive is an 80 Gig, and has about 60 Gig of free space as well. I am still waiting on my DiscWarrior update to do a proper 'defrag' on the Mac. All permissions have been repaired quite recently.

[islandmon]

Thanx , Eddie ... now I don't feel so bad that I didn't get that processor upgrade ; )

[APE Design Ctr]

Yah, who'd of thought?

[DDDesign]

Hi Eddie,

Interesting result. What would be really interesting would be to get the reverse results ie with the versions of VW swapped - so you can really just compare processor to processor and version to version. By the way, I'm assuming that your VW preferences (which are not document specific) are set exactly the same for each machine. I got caught out on this one. Also, there are no other applications open at the time you did the test...

[APE Design Ctr]

Yep, everything is the same. I am thinking to upgrade to 11.5 on the smaller Mac, and i will re-calc.

Then again, why would I?