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From: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: my ideal cache program
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Date: 4 Jul 88 10:14:55 GMT
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My (rather limited) investigations lead me to believe that your '(optional)
read-ahead' -- i.e. convert sector reads to track reads and cache the whole
track -- unless of course you've already got it -- probably offers the
greatest potential for speedup.  However, I haven't yet designed such a thing
clever enough to deal with the fact that not all my disks are laid out with
the same number of sectors/track.

Cheers, Paul