Derpict Performance Enhancement

Andy Berks (berksa@war.wyeth.com)
Wed, 19 Jun 1996 16:00:18 -0400

In the past few months I've had to reload Derpict several times due to
hardware problems, and in this process I discovered that if the temp
and cache files (under File...Settings, and the Files tab) are put in
the DPW2 directory, the performance of Derpict is much faster. I use
a directory C:\DPW2\TEMP for the temp files, and C:\DPW2\TEMP\CACHE
for the cache. Derpict defaults to using C:\TEMP and C:\TEMP\CACHE.
It is my experience that Derpict can read and process a frame image
in about 5 sec. (on my particular pc) with the temp and cache
directory inside of dpw2, but it takes about 20 sec. to do the same
thing when the temp and cache directory point to c:\temp. This is
obviously a significant performance improvement.

Andy Berks

Andrew H. Berks, Ph.D. Sr. Chemical Information Research
Scientist
Wyeth-Ayerst Research tel: 914-732-3908
Bldg 160/101 fax: 914-732-4837
Pearl River NY 10965 USA
internet: berksa@war.wyeth.com
(formerly of the American Cyanamid Co. Medical Research Div.)