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Re: Pb to work with huge files [message #34759 is a reply to message #34620]

Thu, 10 April 2003 14:21

Pavel Romashkin
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Registered: April 1999

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David Fanning wrote:
>
> Slow!? With Associated variables you don't read *anything*
> into memory until you actually use it. Note only is it
> fast, it is about as efficient as it is possible to get!

I thought seek is one of the slowest hardware functions of hard drives.
Continuous read is much faster, although with cache it may be
insignificant. I thought if you wanted to do a lot of random HD access
then seeking would slow things down.
I may be wrong! And indeed this is purely theoretical argument.

Pavel

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		Re: Pb to work with huge files By: David Fanning on Thu, 10 April 2003 09:56
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		Re: Pb to work with huge files By: David Fanning on Thu, 10 April 2003 06:09
		Re: Pb to work with huge files By: Pavel Romashkin on Thu, 10 April 2003 14:21

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