[comp.sys.atari.st] I/O speed

braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) (04/26/87)

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I have also achieved much better disk I/O speeds using Fopen, Fread, etc
(instead of the C library fopen, etc), together with a large buffer.
My experiments show that you do _not_ need a 'monster' buffer.  The speed
rapidly levels off after about 4.5K (the size of one SS track) or 9K
(one DS track).  I use 18K in my microEMACS, 4.5K in some utilities (e.g.
the tiny uuxxcodes).  (In 'more' I used 64K, but only to enable going back
to former screens.)

- Moshe Braner