System Resources - as in Memory and CPU usage.
Are you just kidding around or just don't know what I'm speaking of?
I know what I'm talking about, I suspect the majority here do as well.-cmpm
No offense intended at all. Please understand that I can't see from here whether
you already know all that or not.
The following is not to convince you to switch. Keep what you like. I just would like to write more about system resources in general as
system resource efficiency is actually one of our
main software design requirements.
Measuring "memory consumption" sometimes
is based on misconceptions. If you already know all this, please allow it for
other readers:
The Windows task manager, for example, is
not a suitable tool to measure memory load as it only shows the memory that is
temporarily allocated by Windows for any launched program. It does not mean, that the program necessarily
requires that allocated memory but it can use the memory
quickly,
if it should
become required. If, however,
another program requires more memory, it will be taken from the unnecessarily allocated memory. The actual programs have only very little influence in this procedure. It is managed by Windows.
In an ideal system
all memory would be allocated and your task manager would show
zero free RAM. Think about it: In
theory, it is no good and would be waste if you have
unused RAM at all.
So, if you find in task manager, that PE
seem to take 100MB RAM in your system it doesn't mean that it is
required by PE. It just does mean that
Windows decided, that PE
could quickly use 100MB if it would need it.
However, we took
utmost care to minimize system load in general.
That is why PE may look reduced or even "boring" for some at first. You won't find any fancy stuff such as gauges, statistics graphs or extensive use of graphics buttons in PE. It is because such gimmikry has only limited value. We are spartans in this regard and
hate waste of memory.
I posted the file sizes as this is
somehow a good start to compare system loads: Programs require
at least the memory of their
own size when executed.
On top of that, programs require memory for linked libraries that are loaded with them. That is why programs such as .NET applications load so slowly. They have to load linked libraries of often multiple times of their size.
Then there is
dynamic data for the actual user data and internal program tables required for the program operation.
I don't believe that PE uses so much more of that dynamic data unless you use the extra options that it has to offer.
For example, it requires (a little) extra memory to store formatted text but if you don't use it, the extra memory is not required. And most of the little additional CPU load is caused by the unique text prediction feature that analyszes your text input to automatically create new phrases based on your individual writing style.
If you turn off PE's extra features, it barely exceeds 0.5..1% CPU of a normal today's computer when used for plain text replacement. It should be very similar to other well-designed text replacement utilities.
If you come to another conclusion, I would be curious to learn
how you measure it.
However, I agree with you up to a certain degree. PE is a mature application and does more things at startup and during data I/O operations. We believe, that you may like the reason as it increases data security and operation safety: PE creates auto-backups, scans the phrase file for integrity, uses a shadow copy method to save you from data loss in case of a power failure, etc. You may not need these security measures but other users store many thousands phrases with PE and
rely on this data for doing business. These professional users welcome the extra measures that, yes, require a very small extra system load which is, however, barely measurable.
Hope this helps.
