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- From: "Bernhard Graf" <graf@jojo.IN-Berlin.DE>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 22:00:27 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Directory scan test(Re: What I want from new Workbench)
- Message-ID: <66095678@jojo.IN-Berlin.DE>
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- In article <wulfraedDowwq9.9L4@netcom.com>: "Re: Directory scan test(Re: What I want from
- new Workbench)"
- Dennis Lee Bieber <wulfraed@kd6mog.netcom.com> wrote:
-
- DLB> > > Workbench ASL DirOpus MyFr
- DLB> >
- DLB> > >C: 22s 1s 2s <1s
- DLB> >
- DLB> > >DOWNLOADS: 32s 5s 8s 4s
-
- DLB> Did you reboot the machine before each test? Some of the speed
- DLB> improvement for the latter columns may be due to the directory entries being
- DLB> in RAM: buffer space.
-
- RAM: buffer?
- No, I didn't reboot (I think nobody does this before directory scan ;-).
- I repeated the test several times --> equal conditions for all programs.
-
- DLB> As for another slowdown, consider the different structures in the file
- DLB> system. The Amiga directory blocks do not store file names. To do a
- DLB> directory, the Amiga has to follow every pointer (and chained pointers) in a
- DLB> directory block to find the actual file header block that contains the name
- DLB> string.
-
- So what? All programs work on the same file system.
-
-
- Ciao
- --
- Bernhard Graf
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