Hello,
Last night I was testing and double checking some drivers and firmwares for my Dell Precision M4300 laptop which is a so-called mobile desktop.
Having a look at some performance features in the BIOS I noticed like before that Speedstep & Dynamic Acceleration were on.
So this is as optimal as it can get.
Yeah right
When I was tweaking these, which is plain on or off, I had some surprising results.
as you can see turning off these 'improvement features' makes my laptop 47-57% faster!
SuperPi's first value was 62% faster (36s) than the time needed with the 2 features on (58s).
Where is this technical blahblah leading me too?
having a look at compiling speeds in the B4x tool set didn't seem to be much faster but since it relies a lot on 3rd party stuff (java) the compile times vary a lot even when not touching the source at all.
@Erel: a total compiling time before the "send to device" line would be nice for measurement reasons
Let's have another look at one of the v5.x problem points encountered by several people...
re-enabling the implicit autocompletion...
surprise surprise...
the autocompletion stuff appears at once
no more delays when having a key constantly pressed
CPU dropped from 95% to 60% during the keypress
and this is after changing the ini lines back to their original values (altho 1000 seems better for thread2)
BackgroundGuiThreadInterval2=50
backgroundIndexerThreadInterval=1000
the designer...
selecting another view (label in this case) has a slow refresh of the properties panel(s).
unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an improvement here and I don't feel to reboot once again to change the setting to meassure it
I don't know if this slowdown has been mentioned yet so I will do it if I can't find a thread about it.
summerized:
double check your bios and don't always believe what you read, dare to tweak and compare and it might be a benefit in the end.
In my case it seems to gain the missing cycles needed to have B4x's IDE optimal running.
hopefully this solves something for those who have similar B4x problems and features in their BIOS (could be named turbo mode these days too)
Last night I was testing and double checking some drivers and firmwares for my Dell Precision M4300 laptop which is a so-called mobile desktop.
Having a look at some performance features in the BIOS I noticed like before that Speedstep & Dynamic Acceleration were on.
So this is as optimal as it can get.
Yeah right
When I was tweaking these, which is plain on or off, I had some surprising results.
B4X:
SS: Intel SpeedStep
DA: Intel Dynamic Acceleration
1C: Single CPU benchmark with CPU-Z
MC: Multiple CPU benchmark with CPU-Z
Pi: SuperPi mod 1.5 XS
SS DA 1C MC Pi
on on 078 154 58s
on off 078 132 54s
off off 115 242 36s
off on 115 230 38s
as you can see turning off these 'improvement features' makes my laptop 47-57% faster!
SuperPi's first value was 62% faster (36s) than the time needed with the 2 features on (58s).
Where is this technical blahblah leading me too?
having a look at compiling speeds in the B4x tool set didn't seem to be much faster but since it relies a lot on 3rd party stuff (java) the compile times vary a lot even when not touching the source at all.
@Erel: a total compiling time before the "send to device" line would be nice for measurement reasons
Let's have another look at one of the v5.x problem points encountered by several people...
re-enabling the implicit autocompletion...
surprise surprise...
the autocompletion stuff appears at once
no more delays when having a key constantly pressed
CPU dropped from 95% to 60% during the keypress
and this is after changing the ini lines back to their original values (altho 1000 seems better for thread2)
BackgroundGuiThreadInterval2=50
backgroundIndexerThreadInterval=1000
the designer...
selecting another view (label in this case) has a slow refresh of the properties panel(s).
unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an improvement here and I don't feel to reboot once again to change the setting to meassure it
I don't know if this slowdown has been mentioned yet so I will do it if I can't find a thread about it.
summerized:
double check your bios and don't always believe what you read, dare to tweak and compare and it might be a benefit in the end.
In my case it seems to gain the missing cycles needed to have B4x's IDE optimal running.
hopefully this solves something for those who have similar B4x problems and features in their BIOS (could be named turbo mode these days too)