Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!LOYVAX.BITNET!PGOETZ From: PGOETZ@LOYVAX.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Optimizing Message-ID: <8806270057.aa23609@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: 26 Jun 88 20:04:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 10 Lazlo: Optimizing does not mean writing 0s to unused portions of the disk. That would do nothing for performance. Optimizing means relocating files on the disk so they are contiguous, & hence can be loaded/saved faster. It will increase speed on a hard disk, but maybe not noticably except for BIG files. Disclaimer: I speak of disk optimizing as generally known. What the author of DDD or whatever was thinking of when he wrote an "optimizer" is unknown to me. In other words, anything could happen. Phil Goetz PGOETZ@LOYVAX.bitnet