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This project is abandoned and its default file will likely not work with the most recent version of World of Warcraft. Whether this project is out of date or its author has marked it as abandoned, this project is no longer maintained.

Zoom!!! makes your UI load faster by preventing garbage collection during the UI load cycle.

In particular, it fixes bad behavior incurred by Rock addons, but it'll benefit you even if you don't run Rock mods, as well.

In my own UI, this reduced UI reload times from a whopping 93 seconds to 32 seconds, shaving a full minute off of my load time.

Caveats: This won't work if you're on a FAT32 filesystem (Windows 95, Windows ME, badly configured Windows 2000/XP). Also, if you don't run many mods, you likely won't see a huge benefit from this. The more mods you run, the more benefit you should see.

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spiralofhope
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Posted Dec 25, 2010
> Garbage collected: 1.95 kb, 0 attempts were made to collect garbage, loading took 16.51 seconds

I have a huge number of addons, so I'd expect to see a bit of activity.. but I see zero attempts.

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Posted May 2, 2011
Modern addons may no longer have the problems that Zoom was created to address. The Rock framework is no longer in use.

I looked at the code for Zoom, and it looks perfectly correct to me, with no need for updates. It's still nice to have though. Even if none of your addons cause problems -now-, Zoom will let you know if a new addon or new version starts performing GCs during startup. Users without Zoom would have no idea.

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Posted Nov 7, 2010
Maybe Fan update, someone ?

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spiralofhope
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Posted Oct 21, 2010
Is this working for anyone for 4.0.1?

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Posted May 21, 2010
It's been 3 major patches since this updated..
Would be nice with a update :).
It works fine for me tbh, but I know A LOT of people out there who dont check the Load out of date addons.

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Posted Jun 30, 2010
I wish someone could take this mod over.

@bloodycreate It's safe to assume this person has quit wow if it's not been updated in 2 yrs; which is a shame.

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Posted Dec 12, 2010
@Niselma Lol Antiarc is still actively developing addons...

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Posted May 8, 2010
No updates for this?

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Posted Jul 25, 2009
I've gotten this addon to work. It is "outdated", per se, but that can be easily fixed. Change this line in the TOC file:

## Interface: 30000

to this:

## Interface: 30100

And it should automatically work for you. =) It's a rather "simple" mod if you look at the LUA file, but the work it does is fantastic.

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Posted Jun 12, 2009
Great work m8... this addon is one of a kind :D

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Posted Jun 4, 2009
Know someone other addon for faster reload plz?

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Posted May 18, 2009
This appears to blow up if used with the GoingPrice addons. My Wow.exe task spiked to using near 2GB memory if Zoom is enabled and crashed out while loading. (Tested with just Zoom, GoingPrice, GP_Allakazam and GP_wowhead addons).
Without Zoom, the GP addons peak at around 1.2GB.
(monitored by looking at Virtual Size and Private Bytes in Process Explorer during load).

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Posted Mar 24, 2009
Definitely not working as intended as of 3.0.9 (3/24/09):
Load time with zoom: 54 seconds
Load time without zoom: 55 seconds
Reload UI time with zoom: 78 seconds
Reload UI time without zoom: 80 seconds
Its a shame, sees like it could be very useful if it worked.

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Posted Mar 24, 2009
Definitely not working as of 3.0.9 (3/24/09): Load time with zoom: 54 seconds Load time without zoom: 55 seconds Reload UI time with zoom: 78 seconds Reload UI time without zoom: 80 seconds Its a shame, sees like it could be very useful if it worked.

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Posted Mar 14, 2009
~"garbage collected: 138.62kb, 4 attempts, 18.49s load time"
142 folders in /addons, tested 5 times loading with and 5 times without back to back.
with: 32, 22, 29, 31, 29 = 28.6avg
without: 23, 30, 31, 31, 31 = 29.2avg

With just 4 hooked garbaged collections, I can understand there not being much improvement. I wish I could figure out why there are those random low 22sec loads though and capitalize on that.

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Posted Mar 7, 2009
seems to not be as efficient since 3.09 patch =(

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Posted Dec 23, 2008
I'm curious as to why the filesystem has an impact on this module's usefulness.

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Posted Jan 9, 2009
That is strange. Maybe it wont do garbage collection while loading on fat32, but it seems strange to have a diffrent version because of that

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Posted Dec 21, 2008
Insane difference. Loading time actually decreased from about 30 seconds to around 7 seconds with this addon;

Garbade collected: 156.85 kb, 32 attempts were made to collect garbage, loading took 7.13 seconds.
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2163/zoomaddoniu7.jpg

Just a little tip, it might be smart to explain how your addon works since on first view it seemed like it disabled the garbage collection completely, which would be a bad thing. But in fact it only temporarily disables the garbage collection untill all addons are loaded and then runs it once which increases loading speed by a lot due to multiple addons calling for a garbage collection quite often during initial loading.

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Posted Dec 19, 2008
I'm amazed, but it works. Went from 1:15 to 0:50 in Dalaran. Did the whole stop watch thing, but the hundredths don't really matter to me.

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