Author: José Carlos
Date: 17:26:44 07/26/04
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On July 26, 2004 at 19:55:01, Russell Reagan wrote: >On July 26, 2004 at 12:30:19, Scott Gasch wrote: > >>On July 26, 2004 at 07:22:31, Norm Pollock wrote: >> >>>I wondering if it pays to turn off log files in order to enhance performance? >>>Has anyone ever looked into this? >>> >>>Turning off log files for cm9k and cm10k, which I use in the fritz8 gui, >>>indicates that this might be the case. But my data is too small to draw any >>>conclusion. >> >>One caveat, though. Make sure you don't call fflush or setbuf(NULL) on the file >>descriptors -- i.e. let the CRT buffer your writes. >> >>Scott > >Is that always a good idea? If you are logging a fatal error (i.e. the program >is about to crash), I think you better log it and flush the buffer immediately. >It wouldn't be much help if the program keeps crashing but there is nothing in >your error log. Yes, I agree. I had that problem some time ago. I setbuf(NULL) then and I haven't noticed any performance loss (though I have not made strict measurements). José C.
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