[p4] Re: Speed differences p4win vs. p4

[Dag Arne Matre]

> I am using Perforce over a WAN, and experience huge differences in time to
> complete commands within p4win compared to identical commands in a dos
> shell. I have turned on "show p4 commands in the status pane", and most
> commands (p4 opened, p4 dirs, p4 fstat, etc.) execute much faster in p4win
> than the dos shell. It might be less than a second in p4win, maybe 3 or 4
> seconds in the dos shell. Can anyone shed some light on this? I know this
is
> not much to go on, but I am hoping that someone recognise the situation
and
> if there is something to do to make shell commands faster...
>

I sent question last week, and thanks for all responses.
We have now started using the API thru the P4COM object (thanks a lot,
Robert).
Performance here is fantastic compared to p4 in dos shells, maybe even
faster
than P4Win.
In case you wanted to know...

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