Understood and I will follow your pursuits :becky:
As for the ramdisk, I think it just demonstrates NT7 is using poor file I/O routines or maybe .NET itself is somehow doing a very poor caching job. Unknown. I have 32GB in this system, there is plenty of room for Windows file system cache to cover the NT directory after I run a few passes in the optimizer --- but the ramdisk is still far faster, telling me the data is not cached for some reason.
NT7 does use a temp folder for some things, so there is still some HDD I/O even with the ramdisk. But that discussion is best left to the existing ramdisk thread, and not here.