Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 03:52:58 06/21/00
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On June 20, 2000 at 22:24:32, Adrien Regimbald wrote: >One question - is the grouping of parent/child positions like that all together >really beneficial in practice? I was under the understanding that binary file >access is pretty much constant-time regardless of the position in the file, >unless you need to switch cylenders a lot, or the binary file is scattered >completely - no contigous blocks. What size of a book would you need to >actually notice a benefit with this? I don't think that having to do random-access probes in a file can EVER be faster than simply reading in one (larger?) chunk. -- GCP
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