it's partitioning the hard drive before expanding. That's the delay. Win7 uses a different type of partitioning table and has it in it's own partition (about 200mb on my system)
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it's partitioning the hard drive before expanding. That's the delay. Win7 uses a different type of partitioning table and has it in it's own partition (about 200mb on my system)
i know this isn't exactly relevant, but i just benchmarked one of the new imacs in vista. Pretty respectable scores for a all-in-one screen.
Thats it! You're Banned for using an iMac :lol: ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Orwell
Surely it doesn't take that long to create a GPT. fdisk will do it in an instant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Orwell
I noticed that Windows 7 boots up much faster than Vista. Maybe 5 times faster or more on my computer. I compared times on running some screens from the graphics application I've been working on. I have it installed in Vista and Windows 7 now and for the 3 screens that I tested the application running in Windows 7 ran them from 15 to 20 % faster.
Why is everyone else's computer so much faster with Windows 7 on than mine! :( Mine is either pretty much exactly the same as when I had Vista on it or its slower!
Well here is my updated index now that I have my SSD drive - the Primary Hard Disk has gone from 5.9 to 7.2 :)
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...in7withSSD.png
just need a better graphics card now... :D
Just for fun I ran an application that uses a Do loop and adds 0.001 until a variable reaches 100000. I wanted to see if it would run faster from Windows 7 than in Vista. Very little difference. I don't have Visual Studio installed in Windows 7 yet so I installed the application in both operating systems. Here's the code .
I ran it 5 times from each OS. The average time in Vista was 13.62 seconds and the average time in Windows 7 was just slightly faster at 13.37 seconds so hardly any difference. It's less than a 2% difference though as I said a few posts back I had some screens in a graphics application run from 15 to 20% faster in Windows 7 over Vista. There may be certain kinds of operations that run considerably faster in Windows 7 over Vista but addition doesn't seem to be one of them.Code:Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim StartTime As DateTime = Now
Dim TimeAfterStart As DateTime
Dim ad As Decimal
Do Until ad = 100000
ad += 0.001
Loop
TimeAfterStart = DateTime.Now
Label1.Text = "Seconds to run loop = " & TimeAfterStart.Subtract(StartTime).TotalMilliseconds / 1000
End Sub
End Class
I had the same experience with this. My processor score went up but my graphics score dropped. I ended up with the exact same numbers but swapped.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
I noticed that the code I posted 2 posts back I didn't have Option Strict On. It didn't make a difference turning it on but what made an enormous difference in speed was declaring ad as a double instead of a decimal. If I use this code :
It only takes 0.3432 seconds running from Visual Studio in Vista and 0.1401 seconds installed. So using double gives a 97 fold increase in speed. The reason I used a Decimal the first time is that when I first declared ad a double it never completed the loop because the code was Do Until ad = 100000. In the above code I adjusted it to Do Until ad >= 100000. Using double ad passed 100000 without exactly hitting 100000 so it kept on going when I used = but not when I used >=.Code:Option Strict On
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim StartTime As DateTime = Now
Dim TimeAfterStart As DateTime
Dim ad As Double
Do Until ad >= 100000
ad += 0.001
Loop
TimeAfterStart = DateTime.Now
Label1.Text = "Seconds to run loop = " & TimeAfterStart.Subtract(StartTime).TotalMilliseconds / 1000
End Sub
End Class