From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: Ada95 Streams
Date: 1998/12/03
Date: 1998-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F3ErxE.Aw@jvdsys.stuyts.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 745ufc$n22$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
david_jones_98@yahoo.com wrote:
: Nice page :), however it seems to me that in your program, you are using
: stream_io where you could have used direct_io, ie. you aren't using the
: sequential properties of the stream, but instead just read in the whole file.
It cannot use Direct_IO, since this requires a seqence of identical records,
while the DLL will contain an unpredictable number of different types and
sizes.
Well, with enough virtual memory, why not ? Disks are slow, memory is fast.
Jerry.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-02 0:00 Ada95 Streams david_jones_98
1998-12-02 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-12-03 0:00 ` david_jones_98
1998-12-03 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk [this message]
1998-12-04 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1998-12-03 0:00 ` Srinivasan, R
1998-12-05 0:00 ` david.c.hoos.sr
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