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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: dannyp1 on December 04, 2006, 12:13:57 AM

Title: Libraries And Datatypes
Post by: dannyp1 on December 04, 2006, 12:13:57 AM

I have a question.  Does it matter how many libraries and datatypes you put in your operating system?  Do having a lot hurt anything such as slowing the system down noticably?  If it doesn't I would think it would be an advantage to have as many as possible.  Does anybody out there have any experience with this?

Dan

Title: Re: Libraries And Datatypes
Post by: Piru on December 04, 2006, 12:17:47 AM

Adding libraries will have no effect on system performance, as they're only loaded to memory on demand.

Datatypes are slightly different: The datatype descriptors are all loaded by AddDataTypes at system startup. When a unknown file is opened with datatype system, the descriptors are used to identify the file. This identification process can potentially get slower if tons of datatypes are installed. In practice this is no problem however, as there are limited number of usable datatypes.