In article <20150505103028.gg19...@kyllikki.org>,
Vincent Sanders <vi...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> This change should be beneficial to RISC OS users as filecore is
> (apparently) dreadful at this kind of usage pattern.
I wonder if this is because RISC OS files are 'defragmented' all the
time - I think I am correct in saying that when a file becomes too
big for the contiguous space it currently occupies, it is copied into
a larger block of free space. This means that as the file grows, it
may be regularly being copied somewhere else on the disc, and with
files that may be hundreds of MB in size, this will be slow - very
much so when the drive is an SD card.
--
Chris Johnson
