reg@lti.com (Rick Genter x18) (10/27/88)
> And don't forget that at some level the record-access has to be doing > byte-stream I/O *anyway*. The only way it can win is by buffering. And wouldn't > you rather tune your own buffer sizes? This is not correct. Record-access in the IBM mainframe world is also referred to or built on top of an `access method'. These provide direct access I/O to the disk at the record level, and the method of address is of varying complexity. There may be hash tables, B-trees, etc., involved that most certainly do *N*O*T* do byte-stream I/O to the disk. - reg -- Rick Genter ...!{buita,bbn}!lti!reg Language Technology, Inc. reg%lti.uucp@bu-it.bu.edu 27 Congress St., Salem, MA 01970 (508) 741-1507