From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: File output and buffering
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:44:48 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2008-08-20T07:44:48-07:00 [thread overview]
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On 20 Sie, 11:21, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> BTW, buffering does not make I/O faster. It obviously does the opposite.
You must be using some strange timer or a specially distorted
definition of I/O.
Buffering allows to minimize the overhead that is there per each
physical output operation. If you can produce the same amount of data
but with less operations, then the total overhead is smaller.
--
Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com
Database Access Library for Ada: www.inspirel.com/soci-ada
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-20 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-19 20:27 File output and buffering Maciej Sobczak
2008-08-20 6:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-08-20 8:43 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-08-20 8:59 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-08-20 9:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-08-20 14:44 ` Maciej Sobczak [this message]
2008-08-20 15:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-08-21 7:10 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-08-21 9:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-08-21 20:54 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-08-21 21:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-08-22 11:53 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-08-22 13:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-08-22 21:41 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-08-23 10:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-08-23 13:41 ` Steve
2008-08-23 14:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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2008-08-23 22:00 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-08-20 13:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-08-20 14:41 ` Maciej Sobczak
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