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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fastbench
Message-ID: <7795@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 00:58:37 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 00:58:37 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 23:59:29 EST
References: <6888@sunybcs.UUCP>
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In article <6888@sunybcs.UUCP> ugpete@sunybcs.UUCP (Peter Theobald) writes:
>   AmigaDog is VERY fast at looking up files it already knows the names
>of (it can go right to them because of the hash tables) so opening a
>workbench drawer is now a process of getting '.info.dir' then getting each
>.info file in the list. Very fast!
>   Workbench would have to be changed as follows: Each time a .info file is
>deleted or a new .info file is created, the .info.dir in that directory
>must be updated. Note that if a .info file is merely altered the .info.dir
>is still valid and doesn't have to be changed.

Better yet, do the right thing and fix Amigados and associated programs so
that directory accesses go as quickly as they could.

Maybe we could get Commodore to hire ASDG to rewrite the thing :-).  Then
you know it would be fast!

Sean
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