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From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: Ada95 Streams
Date: 1998/12/03
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Date: 1998-12-03T00:00:00+00:00
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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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