Snow Leopard-Speed Increase too good to be true?

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This doesn't look like the most active forum, but hopefully someone will share their experience.

I run an FM 10v3 database on a 2.4GHz dual core late 2008 MacBook. It runs a fairly complex looping script nightly for data acquisition involving screen scraping from an HTML source. The entire script usually takes 4.5 hours to run. After upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard, acquisition time has dropped to 3 hours. I know that Snow Leopard optimizes use of the dual core, but I fear this speed increase is too good to be true. I am worried that weeks from now I will find that I am missing data.

Has anyone out there had a similar experience or care to comment?

Thanks

[Søren Dyhr]

Mine is still in the post, so it's good news to me ... although I have heard others with musical applications, not feeling anything exept the release of dearly disposable harddrive space. My guess is their tools might which ever rely heavy on Rosetta or not even are fledged for 64bits at all. Pro Tool e.g. is not going to support it yet.

--sd

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It seems quite possible, given the reports of Safari performing much faster when run in 64-bit.

the release of dearly disposable harddrive space.

Real or imaginary?

http://www.macworld.com/article/142471/2009/08/snow_leopard_math.html

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I like the Safari 64 bit theory given my heavy use of webviewers. However, I had my default browser set to firefox. As I understand it FM webviewer uses whichever browser is set as default, so I'm not sure that explains it.

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As I understand it FM webviewer uses whichever browser is set as default

No, it uses an instance of the OS native browser.

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Oh Really! I'm not sure where I read that FM uses the default browser setting.

Well then that might explain it since half of my runtime is webviewer loading.

[Søren Dyhr]

Real or imaginary?

Good question what I've paid attention to is this:

http://www.latenitesoft.com/email/Xslimmer1.7.html

--sd