Does eBoostr Help or Not?
By billy | December 2nd, 2008 | 9:46 am
It’s installed and working just fine. However, I honestly can’t tell if it is really helping me or not. Visual Studio.NET, FireFox and Thunderbird are the main applications I am concerned about and I did select them. My VS compiles are still slow (maybe marginally faster) and FireFox still pauses a lot. I’ve done a lot of optimization on both as well as Windows beyond eBoostr as well.
It may help your sales if you can show more definitely the gains on someone’s computer even if it is just outlining a test procedure to follow.
In my personal case, VS compiles and .NET application speed are going to be the deciding factor.
Dec 02, 2008
If you use c++ as a programming language, there is a product that will dramatically increase your compilation/building speed: http://www.xoreax.com (incredibuild)
It basically distributes the compilation load over multiple computers (but again only for c++ solutions)
Dec 02, 2008
No, C#. And no multiple computers is not an option.
Dec 02, 2008
Ok, not an option then. (i’m an c# developer too)
Eboostr did increase the snappiness of applications on my computer.
Compilation is of course a very intensive write (new file creations) based operation, and eboostr basically is a read cache of applications that have been accessed at least once before.
Dec 02, 2008
i can confirm that eboostr is quite useful especially in VS. i’m a .net programmer myself and i can confirm that is somehow diminishes the hdd thrashing. it does not do wonders but it seems to help. you should use a bit VS and then ask eboostr to rebuild it’s cache. after that there will be some improvements.
Dec 02, 2008
Just a question about VS… will eBoostr cache also my source codes? And what happen when I change the code a bit and then build my application? Will eBoostr recognize that my source code has changed?
Dec 02, 2008
It does cache the source after a period of time. It will detect if a source file has been modified and will remove it from the cache. It might add it back to the cache later.
Since normally, you only edit a small number of files in your project at a time, something like 95% of your source will be cached.
Dec 02, 2008
yep! eboostr will cache the project. it will update the changes from time to time. it won’t however cache the modifications instantly… so i’ve noticed. it’s quite useful but there is still remaining disk activity which makes want more… more silence and more cpu used.