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Re: Moving binary files to /RAM
- Subject: Re: Moving binary files to /RAM
- From: email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com (Simon Williams)
- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:01:11 GMT
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BluPhoenyx <bluphoenyx-@-earthlink.dot.net> wrote:
> Laine Houghton wrote:
> >
> > The root directory can handle I think 50 or 51 files. There is a slight
> > delay in decoding the subdirectory though that should be a constant.
>
> This is not true with ProDOS' /RAM. To make the best use of the memory,
> ProDOS only uses 1 block for file info. IIRC, the root of /RAM holds
> only 13(?) file name entries. Subdirectories are the key to take
> advantage of /RAM.
13 sounds right... I hit that roadblock a while back, so I've been using
a subdirectory all along. Could it be that the directory is fragmented
in a way that ProDos has to sspend more time looking for the last files?
I feel myself very quickly going out of my depth... :(
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