[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: > I guess I should have asked for the ratio B/A. If that's small, as you > claim, there should be a significant gain. _If_ it turned out that A > and B were of the same size, then the gain would be quite small, > decreasing the number of required syncs at most by a smallish factor > like 2 or 5.
Um, cutting the number of syncs in half would have a *huge* impact. I think you underestimate the cost of a disk seek. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
