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Re: Moving binary files to /RAM
"Simon Williams" <email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com> wrote in message
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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... :(
Just going up on a new learning curve that's all......<grin>
>
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