Power Objects: Ye gods it's slow!

wtfxston_at_netcom.com (William Todd Featherston) wrote:

I don't understand this one...

I have been using OPO for quite some time now on different C/S configurations and have not seen performance as bad as you are experiencing. I have used both the trial and production versions of the system.

On the PC are you using Windows or Windows for Workgroups?

>Oracle Power Object Developers,
>
>I have been tasked with writing a Mac and Windows interface to our oracle
>database. To that end we have purchased the client-server version of Oracle
>Power Objects. While I wait for our purchase order to twist its way through
>Oracle I have started this project with the demo version (1.0.4). My
>initial observation is:
>It's slow! It's sluggish, slothful, lethargic. It's horrendously slow! I
>created a form with two embedded sub-forms. Moving from one record to the
>next takes over three (3) seconds (you know_ one Mississippi, two
>Mississippi etc.). When adding a new record it takes an amazing four (4)
>seconds before the record is cleared and another four (4) before what you
>type starts to appear in the form. This is on a Pentium 90 with 32mb of
>memory. I will be deploying on mostly 486s with 16mb. I don't think I'm
>doing anything wrong, the sample applications are all kind of slow as well
>(but not this slow). I really like Power Objects, it was great to take
>what I had developed so far under Windows across the hall and have it
>run without trouble on a MAC. But please tell me the production version
>talking to an Oracle server via SQLNET runs *a lot* faster than this!
>Thanx
>Todd Fx

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Anon. Received on Wed Feb 21 1996 - 00:00:00 CET