Hi Hilmar,

I remember the discussion, where someone mentioned that they had performed many tests, and the conclusion was that the exe in many circumstances could be transferred from the server many times in small chunks. So running the exe from the local machine can be a big boost.

>>Hi Hilmar
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>>I had a conversation with people here a few days ago which seemd to indicate that running the exe directly off the server was a performance hit.
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>>You seem to not find this a problem which is interesting.
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>I suspect it would delay the startup only, although others thought that it might make the performance after startup slower, too. The real performance problems - IMO - come from transferring the data over the network.
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>Although I didn't seem to have serious performance problems, this certainly is an issue that warrants further investigation.