| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 31 May 2001 at 07:58:09 |
| Subject: | Re: O/S 3.9 what's good and what's not? |
Andrew Crowe said,
>> That's HDEnv. HappyENV creates a special ENV: device which holds the
>> contents of environment variables in a more efficient way than
>> storing each one as a separate file.
> What HappyEnv does is create an ENV: device which is essentially
> empty. If any program requests to read a certain file, it fetches it
> from ENVARC: and stores it in ENV:
Right.
> Thus only files that are in use are copied to ram, not all of 'em
The other difference is that they are stored in RAM, but not as files in
RAM:
> You could make an env folder on your harddisk if you were /really/
> desperate to save memory, but it would make booting a lot slower
That's where HDEnv comes in. It only copies or deletes files that are
different in ENV: and ENVARC:. Itr's much faster than the normal "copy
ENVARC: to ENV:" process.
Cheers
Neil
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