@PAB who said
> Just try using IBrowse for 4 days.
This is not, what I consider "real life", sorry...
Ummm, I doubt that it was meant as a "real life" test, but rather as a simple test method.
In "real life" you will be starting & stopping lots of programs, and pretty soon memory will become fragmented and slow. If you only run one program, then TLSFmem (and multi-tasking) are not for you.
BTW, I can guarantee you that fast memory allocators *will* make massive speed differences to programs that allocate lots of (small) memory blocks. Case in point: My FolderSync program (very old version on the Aminet) ran *70* faster when I replaced the standard memory allocation routines with my own fast memory system.
Why did it run 70 times faster? Because it was highly optimised (at scanning & comparing folders), runs without user intervention (to slow it down), and allocates several memory blocks for every file/folder it sees. The upshot of which is that OS3's appallingly antiquated memory system consumed 99% of the processing time!
