Re: More performance news! Was: [Audacity-devel] Now some good performance news

[Dominic M. <do...@au...>]

On Jul 30, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Monty wrote:
>> There is also a chance, I might have used the Debug version --- not
>> sure.  I do not know if there is a big performance difference between
>> Debug and Release.
>
> A Debug version will be noticably slower but not slow.  And that
> won't affect disk throughput at all.

But on a 300 MHz machine that could easily make or break Audacity.  
I've found
that on Windows, GUI operations can be 4-5 times slower in Debug than 
in Release,
assuming both wx and Audacity were compiled in Debug mode.

- Dominic