I've been writing a program which reads many dozens of files.
Running it from PB, I find that the first time I run the program (after restarting the computer), it takes a while to "warm up". But running it the second time, it's much faster.
Why would this be happening? Are recently-opened files held in RAM, or in the CPU cache?
Why would a program run faster the second time?
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Seymour Clufley
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Why would a program run faster the second time?
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Re: Why would a program run faster the second time?
Yes, probably. Windows caches files etc. to some extent. Don't know enough about it though.Seymour Clufley wrote:Are recently-opened files held in RAM, or in the CPU cache?
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Re: Why would a program run faster the second time?
Yep, the files are cached. Tip: When your app is first run, and is idle, do a background read of the files. Then when the user wants to read the files later, it'll be lightning fast. 
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