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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 17:56:42 +0200
From: Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
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To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: fread slowstart
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Charles Sandmann wrote:
> 
> > Should we default to a max size (63.5K) transfer buffer now ?
> 
> I think it's excessive.  It eats into the DOS memory left for other
> programs, and I didn't see much improvement in data transfer speeds for
> transfers over 32K on any system I tested.

There are some functions that require additional DOS memory when the
buffer size is too small. When setting the buffer size too small you may
end up in a situation that more memory is eaten up than when the TB size
is set comfortably large.

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