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I discovered why my explorations were taking so long. In the Explorer
Options, the 'Load Minimum Records' option was **not** checked. Instead I
had the 'Load [5000] Records' option checked.
Do any of you, for some good reason, advocate using the 'Load [XXXX]
Records' option?
Incidentally, I sent in a check for the program earlier mentioned here,
vRamDir, and got it from the author a few days ago. After experimenting,
I'm left with the impression that vRamDir probably is **not** a panacea for
faster explorations --- each file of stock price data still must be
individually read, and is not subsequently re-read, thus bringing it into
cache in real time serves no purpose. One would have to copy all data files
to RAM **before hand** in order for the cache to make a difference.
One additional note: reading over the benefits of Windows 2000, it seems
that it will make quite a difference to our explorations speed, from several
different enhancements. Have any of you folks thought about this?
Thanks for your advice.
Nicholas
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