iwm@ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) (07/12/89)
I have cobbled together a minimal C runtime library (enough to get uudecode
running) using PDC and A68k, mostly in C. It is based mainly on what little
I know about the Unix C library. It uses buffers and does Read or Write when
the buffers need filling/Flushing. What I would like to know is what effect
the buffer size (and hence the size of Amiga DOS requests) is. Obviously
it should be a multiple of block size, but do big reads slow down
the disk ? Do big writes result in contiguous files that read faster ?
Should I buffer at all or rely on DOS buffering ?
Please dont ask for copies -- when its ready I'll post to comp.{sources|binaries}.amiga
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