On 9/12/2005 1:35 PM, Scott Moore wrote the following:

Mitty wrote On 09/12/05 09:46,:


It seems that Seattle
Avionics is the most reasonably priced, but SLOW!


and immature. Re slow, they are doomed because they are using MS dot-net. Also
huge amounts of memory required. I do have/use Smartplates though and like it.


.net suffers mainly from "diarreah of the .dll", but so do a lot of C/C++ based
applications. Also, are they doing all of it, or just part of it, in .net ?


I don't know the fine points. What I know is that I had to get a giant download
from M$ just to run the SA stuff at all and that it is very slow and very, very
memory hungry. I am running only the Smartplates module, which consumes 69 meg
of memory just to catalog and print out a few pieces of paper. This is over
three times the size of Word and four times the size of Excel, both of which
actually DO something with their pieces of paper and neither of which is
renowned for being parsimonious with system resources.

I am willing to tolerate this because I like the app, but that does not mean I
think the design decision was in users' best interests.