Programming Laptop Suggestions

[Invictus3593]

Originally Posted by Ether

How do you know it's a RAM issue and not a disk issue. What do you mean by "initialize builds" in this context?

For me, It has before taken the same amount of time to load on a sata drive vs an IDE drive, but you're right, I may have had a slow sata drive and a fast IDE. But adding ram that i had laying around did improve the speed, in my case:/

I mean whenever you click the Build option and it bring up a window and says "initializing build. This may take a while" for 3 minutes before the status bar moves past 0%.


What I suggested was overkill for just programming, but if you're doing high-resolution animations and rendering, it works pretty well.

[null]

High latency on your RAM could be an issue. Is every module of RAM in use of the same type and speed?

[Greg McKaskle]

The issue was generally caused by bugs in the caching of compiled files. This resulted in several hundred VIs being compiled and saved back into the database. On slow machines, this can literally take minutes -- which is why there is a cache in the first place. A number of things were done to correct for slow builds, including adding in more thorough tests to measure the build and deploy time in various configurations.

Greg McKaskle

[Invictus3593]

Originally Posted by null

High latency on your RAM could be an issue. Is every module of RAM in use of the same type and speed?

Yeah, they're two kingston 8gb cards, then I guess there's an extra 4gb embedded on the mobo somewhere because we use both sodimm slots for our 8gb cards