I have heard portable applications ought to be slower than installed ones? Is that truth? If yes, why?
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A portable app will run at the same speed as an installed app when run from the same drive. If you run a portable app from a slower flash drive, it will run slower... just as a local app would if you installed it to the same slower drive.
The one exception is web browsers since the cache is often disabled by default in the case of installing to flash drives, but if you're running it from a local or external hard drive where size isn't an issue, you can enable cache in Options.
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----------- A portable app will run at the same speed as an installed app when run from the same drive.
OK, that means running it on another partition on the same drive is as fast also.
----------- The one exception is web browsers since the cache is often disabled by default in the case of installing to flash drives, but if you're running it from a local or external hard drive where size isn't an issue, you can enable cache in Options.
Alrigth, good to know, so I just enabled that cache and that one: browser.cache.use_new_backend.
Many thanks, John
Windows 10 Home, 64bit
I think the I/O PortableApps use to read/write .ini files is slower than reading/writing the same entries in the memory resident Registry files has an impact also.
Ed
How big is that effect, how many time does that need (more)? And how often does a portable app read and write to such an ini file?
Windows 10 Home, 64bit
Most of the portable apps that support redirecting to an INI in a specific location normally write that INI locally to APPDATA, so no difference there. The apps that use the registry have a small startup and exit lag to import and export it while the app is running, but this doesn't affect the app while it is running and it's usually unnoticeable. There are only a handful of apps that normally store settings in the registry in their local mode that store to an INI in their built-in portable mode.
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Alright, so there is really no speed difference.
Many thanks again.
Windows 10 Home, 64bit