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HeyBub
Flightless Bird
thanatoid wrote:
> "HeyBub" <heybub@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:u1F1$28mKHA.1548@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:
>
>> thanatoid wrote:
>>>
>>> And may I disrespectfully point out to those who keep on
>>> beating the dead horse of "improved performance" that
>>> neither I nor most of the other pro-RC posters (IIRC) have
>>> ever claimed ANY performance increase - in fact I have
>>> repeatedly stated there is ZERO performance increase.
>>>
>>
>> I don't know of anybody who has quantified a computer's
>> efficiency before and after a 'registry cleaning.' I doubt
>> that it's doable.
>>
>> First, there are always seven registry hives and no cleaner
>> is going to reduce that number. In almost all cases, when
>> asked, the OS loads an entire hive into memory and searches
>> it at RAM speed. Further, the search is not even a
>> sequential search but a tree search. The OS has to make, at
>> most, maybe five or ten comparisons in the tree to find the
>> requested key.
>>
>> So, whether the registry contains 1,000 entries or five
>> million, the difference in access time is unmeasurably
>> small.
>
> Are you attempting to make a point, let alone in reply to my
> statement?
If the pitchers keep bearing down and the hitters keep swinging for the
fences, anything could happen. Everybody knows that and that's what I'm
trying to explain. Heck, while I write this I am obliged to keep a gun in
each hand and a knife in the other. Fortunately everyone survived except
those who were drowned in an adjacent bog.
> "HeyBub" <heybub@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:u1F1$28mKHA.1548@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:
>
>> thanatoid wrote:
>>>
>>> And may I disrespectfully point out to those who keep on
>>> beating the dead horse of "improved performance" that
>>> neither I nor most of the other pro-RC posters (IIRC) have
>>> ever claimed ANY performance increase - in fact I have
>>> repeatedly stated there is ZERO performance increase.
>>>
>>
>> I don't know of anybody who has quantified a computer's
>> efficiency before and after a 'registry cleaning.' I doubt
>> that it's doable.
>>
>> First, there are always seven registry hives and no cleaner
>> is going to reduce that number. In almost all cases, when
>> asked, the OS loads an entire hive into memory and searches
>> it at RAM speed. Further, the search is not even a
>> sequential search but a tree search. The OS has to make, at
>> most, maybe five or ten comparisons in the tree to find the
>> requested key.
>>
>> So, whether the registry contains 1,000 entries or five
>> million, the difference in access time is unmeasurably
>> small.
>
> Are you attempting to make a point, let alone in reply to my
> statement?
If the pitchers keep bearing down and the hitters keep swinging for the
fences, anything could happen. Everybody knows that and that's what I'm
trying to explain. Heck, while I write this I am obliged to keep a gun in
each hand and a knife in the other. Fortunately everyone survived except
those who were drowned in an adjacent bog.