Best Classic speed patches?

[CRL]

Hi All-
I got my nearly stock ('040/50mhz,CDROM) A4000 running OK and added Fblit and oxyport patches to speed thing up.  Then I got to looking around in aminet and found many other speed patches (memory speedups, cpublit thingies, P2Cgraphic whizbangs, boot-fasters, etc.).  Sooo, do any of these work on an AmiDos 3.9 system?  3.9 was described (uncharitably?) as just incorperating patches that were out there, but I'm not sure which ones.  Or which ones fight eachother and end up slowing things down.  I'm guessing you-all have tried all possible combinations over the years and can suggest worthwhile improvements.  
Yours-
CRL

[SilvrDrgn]

HSMathLibs made a pretty good improvement to my A4000.  Find them here - http://www.hsmathlibs.de/

[odin]

A 50Mhz 040?! :-o. Sounds like a pretty good speed patch already ;-).

I guess you have some serious cooling in that A4k.

[CRL]

Hi Odin-
Yes.  I bought a Sonnet "quaddoubler", from a classic Mac supply company.  Comes with a big heatsink and fan.  Plug and play.  There is some discussion of these things in a hardware thread.

slvrdrgn- Thanks for the mathcode tip.  I assumed that amidos 3.9 had included this fix?  I don't recall a claim to that effect, so I must have assumed it.  They did say "many optimizations" or word like that.  I'll try the beta.  Is it reasonably safe?

Yours-
CRL

[CRL]

oops.. hit send twice somehow.
Sorry-
CRL

[Castellen]

Executive is good if you're running lots of different programs at the same time.

It doesn't necessarily make anything run faster, but since it dynamically allocates task priorities either automatically or by your preset instructions, it can make things run a lot smoother.

Works great with AOS3.9 + BB2 and earlier OS versions.

[MaDDuck]

SilvrDrgn wrote:
HSMathLibs made a pretty good improvement to my A4000.  Find them here - http://www.hsmathlibs.de/

is that it???
Anybody have anything else?

[SnowBord]

totally rusty, but doesnt new8n1.device help for networking?

i had tons up my sleeve back in the day including the new maths libs...

[lionstorm]

add env-handler to your patch list. It avoids loading all env in ram, thus saving memory and probably boot time.
Blizkick is a must if you fulfill the requirement plus exec44 (you can find them here http://piru.dyndns.org/~p/sw/). Otherwise there is mcp, CMQ and mmulibs.
Lio

[Damion]

Blizkick and exec44 are required, IMO. You may also want to check
out SystemPatch, I used it for quite a while and it works well...
(it also replaces FText and BlazeWCP).

Another tip -- try running "FBlit" in exclude mode...IBrowse f.e. won't
otherwise be promoted, unless you set it manually to your "include"
list.

[CRL]

Thanks All-
I've downloaded all the suggested patches and will try them.  Question: doesn't 3.9 shift the ROM to RAM in order to patch stuff? And if so isn't it in RAM like blitzkick, providing all the inherent speedup? What am I missing here?

Also- there was a memory speed-up in aminet that made me wonder if it would work on a A4000. (According to ABIB my memory functions are the slowest part of the system.)

Your past advice got me to invest in turboprint, which did improve things nicely.  How much would I notice the difference a video card makes?  Screens pop up real lively as is, but I can't get video clips (the movie trailers on the 3.9 cd)to show smoothly. Is the slow part the decoding (CPU) or the screen painting?  How does one sort that out? some kind of benchmark program?  Just full of today.
Yours-
CRL