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Speed differences - be more specific (Miscellaneous)

posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 07.12.2007, 21:27

> The fact is, file IO is not optimized. Directory searching, fat searching
> and file IO are not using these calls. They are using single sector (or
> potentially cluster) reads/writes.

"single sector" is impossible, but "single cluster" might be. The benchmark program mentioned previously hooks Int 13h and counts the read/writes. For FreeDOS, there were indeed significantly more Int 13h read/writes than for MS-DOS, but IIRC it was about 2000 reads (MS-DOS about 1000) for a 40 MB file on a 32 GB partition.

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