To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
References:	<1700173701D AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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From:	"Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
Date:	Mon, 28 Sep 1998 22:12:43 +0400 (MSD)
Organization:	Locus
Reply-To:	ark AT mos DOT ru
Subject:	Re: Suggestions for DR-DOS
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X-Comment-To: Matthias Paul

Hi!

29-σΕΞ-98 15:58 PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Matthias Paul) wrote to opendos AT delorie DOT com:

MP> [FASTOPEN]
 >>Please mind that Caldera s implementation is using a very efficient
 >>hash table mechanism. A single reference takes only 2 bytes for
 >>DR-DOS. So settings like FASTOPEN=512 or FASTOPEN=1024 that would
 >>consum several Kilobytes of memory on MS-DOS/PC DOS systems just
 >>use up a few bytes on DR-DOS...
MP> In other words: Under DR-DOS a setting of FASTOPEN=512 consumes
MP> 0.5 Kb for up to 256 files,

     How???

> while for the same number of files
MP> MS-DOS' FASTOPEN=256 would use up 12 Kb (48 bytes per file).

     fastopen under MS-DOS caches only directories names. And why 48 byte,
when path can be up to 64 byte?

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