On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 22:49:16 +0100
Arnould Nazarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> > Slaving is not a problem for fs.load (only for streams,ie reading byte after byte),
> 
> 
> Why? You mean that slave blocks do make it impossible to choose to read 
> byte after bytes from a file and that for each new byte, there is a 
> first search in the slave blocks?

IIRC TT said that fs.load looks only once at slave blocks issue. 

> But then why does the machine slow 
> down when the file was never read and the slave blocks are empty? 
> Ah 
> yes, because a multitasking machine like the QL is meant to be never 
> reset, and the slave blocks are always filled? So the OS just stubbornly
> looks through the memory for each new byte needed? Is this the problem?
> 
> Arnould
> 
> 
> 


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