"Jan Slodicka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello > > Cards are being used more and more on the Palm devices and the users start > wondering why the file move within one card is so slow, when Windows or > PPC > manage to do it fast. I personally don't understand why Palm selected this > way... (Performing operation on the FAT directory can't be a big deal.) > > Does anybody know if this decision will be reconsidered at some time? Or > is > there a better solution already? (E.g. a better driver - even if only for > specific cards.)
>From what I've seen, VFS seems to be entirely unbuffered, so every write - even of one byte - appears to result in an immediate write to flash, which is slow (to say the least). The file write performance of my apps increased dramatically when I implemented a buffered write mechanism with a 64k buffer. Martin. -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
