Re: VMS patch set (extensive) - first try (almost)

[email protected] (Steven M. Schweda) writes:

> This change disables (on VMS) the fflush() call near the end of
> write_data().  While the comments say it "should not hinder
> performance", in fact, on VMS it slows a transfer by more than a
> factor of two.

You mean your hard disk is slower than the network?  If that is the
case, how can retrieval be slowed down further?

Or could it the case that VMS's read() returns data in extremely slow
chunks?

> My guess is that it would be best to remove it everywhere, unless
> anyone can justify its presence.  (But, hey.  If you like it, you're
> welcome to keep it for _your_ OS.)

The justification is that, if you see three dots drawn on the screen,
you expect the file to be 3K large (or slightly larger), not smaller
than that.

I don't think it makes sense for this to be OS-dependent.