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 > > > -- ______________________________________________________________________ powered by Q60 * Motorola 68060 / 80 MHz * 80 MB RAM * 30 GB Hard Disk
