On 21 Jun 2003, at 2:41, P Witte wrote:
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Yes, that is understood. It is in situations where the whole file cannot be
read at once, Im thinking about. (Besides, on a multitasking machine it is
probably not very polite to grab huge buffers ;)
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Oh well, if you start worrying about
P Witte wrote:
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As far as I know, nothing my program does should be affected by the size
of the buffer, apart from filling it in the first place. So my findings
would seem to indicate that a buffer size of between 256 bytes! and 1k are
optimal for this kind of thing. This is strange enough,
On 6/21/2003 at 11:35 PM Lau wrote:
Back to my earlier mention of caching... hard drives and their
controllers do caching as well. I'm not certain if they do read-ahead
caching.
In short, yes. Even older IDE drives with sufficient buffer memory at least
attempt to always read in the whole
