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["Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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ATTENTION ALL THE CODE REVISION TEAM.

As I stated some time before, I have noticed delays in Arachne,
which delays increase in length as the number of items in the
cache increase.

The delay when Arachne seems to be doing nothing decreases to
zero when the cache is emptied.

This of course is understandable for remote URLs as Arachne will
need to check whether a page has already been downloaded or not.

But the argument does not hold for local files.

And even more so, this should not apply to pages that are
re-formatted on every loading, such as the Inbox, Outbox and
other mail boxes.

The delay even occurs on such operations as reload (hotkey "R"),
shell to DOS (hotkey "Alt-E") and calls to the external editor.

I suspect that CORE.EXE is ALWAYS checking for cached versions of
the action even when this is not applicable.

Greg M.

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