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Subject: Re: Windows (2000) questions

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 14:14:14 10/18/02

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On October 18, 2002 at 15:07:52, martin fierz wrote:

>while i generally agree with your last statement, the OS can never know quite >as well as the programmer what it should or should not be caching. so for best
>performance it's generally a good idea to do the caching yourself if you know
>it's necessary.

True. It's not strictly necessary, it just improves performance if the OS
is able to do some caching itself. The difference between Linux and Windows
is striking here.

>also, i wonder a bit what your bookbuilder does, why do you need disk
>caching at all? shouldnt you just be reading each game in the database just
>once?

The book itself needs to be updated after each read game. There is already
a simple caching layer in place, but it seems that on Windows it is not
sufficient.

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GCP



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