[email protected] wrote:
> QL-style SLAVE block buffering would in most cases not speed up, but
> slow down access to an SDHC card! Especially if the number of SLAVE 
> blocks is allowed to grow until all free RAM is used - which is the 
> convention.

QPC has enforced limits to the size of the slave blocks for 15 years
or so in SMSQ/E (only the first megabyte of ram is used for slaving).
And I don't actually remember it, but if the version history doesn't
lie I implemented the same change for Qx0 back then, too.

> Ideally, a new compromise between buffer management overhead and the
> benefit of abstracting very short scattered accesses from the 
> hardware block access level would be nice.

Yeah, but I don't really expect any more advances in that area.

Cheers, Marcel

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