Alexander Deliyannis
1/3/2008 10:08 am
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
It's more than 1.5 Mb which by Brainstorm standards is rather huge. However, I think the problem lies in it having too many namesakes.
Not quite; unfortunately I haven't be able to reproduce the problem consistently. In any case, due to the size and the way that Brainstorm works, some of operations such as search/replace are simply too slow. That's why I say that it wasn't intended for such work; Zoot or other programs using indexing would speed along.
I have another problem with Brainstorm, which remains my main tool notwithstanding; the new version which has been re-engineered on a new and more powerful framework ( http://www.brainstormsw.com/weblog/archives/268 ) is no longer compatible with Greek characters. So I have a choice (a) switch to the new version for my English-language academic work, for which I find it irreplacable, and give it up for my Greek professional work, or (b) maintain the previous, no longer developed version, for all my needs.
Thanks, I will wait around until it's completed and available. I found even IE7 much lighter (processor-wise) than Opera. I have the feeling that they have put too much under the hood, compared to other browsers that have a swift core and one can add functions on top. On my notebook I tried K-meleon ( http://www.k-meleon.org/ ) which uses the Modzilla Gecko engine, and I didn't even notice that it was running. Very impressive - until I started opening several layers (tabs) and it consumed the browser's full memory footprint X the number of layers...
alx
Creating a database is a supported use of Brainstorm. How
big is too big a file?
It's more than 1.5 Mb which by Brainstorm standards is rather huge. However, I think the problem lies in it having too many namesakes.
Do the developers agree the file is larger than Brainstorm can handle?
Not quite; unfortunately I haven't be able to reproduce the problem consistently. In any case, due to the size and the way that Brainstorm works, some of operations such as search/replace are simply too slow. That's why I say that it wasn't intended for such work; Zoot or other programs using indexing would speed along.
I have another problem with Brainstorm, which remains my main tool notwithstanding; the new version which has been re-engineered on a new and more powerful framework ( http://www.brainstormsw.com/weblog/archives/268 ) is no longer compatible with Greek characters. So I have a choice (a) switch to the new version for my English-language academic work, for which I find it irreplacable, and give it up for my Greek professional work, or (b) maintain the previous, no longer developed version, for all my needs.
>- Opera
Version 9.5, in beta, is supposed to address
infrastructural issues. The beta isn't suitable for work use, as it is somewhat
unstable and annoyingly incomplete. But it is noticeably faster, at least
subjectively the fastest browser on my system. My guess is process usage has
improved, but I haven't looked at it.
Thanks, I will wait around until it's completed and available. I found even IE7 much lighter (processor-wise) than Opera. I have the feeling that they have put too much under the hood, compared to other browsers that have a swift core and one can add functions on top. On my notebook I tried K-meleon ( http://www.k-meleon.org/ ) which uses the Modzilla Gecko engine, and I didn't even notice that it was running. Very impressive - until I started opening several layers (tabs) and it consumed the browser's full memory footprint X the number of layers...
alx