[V4RB] Database creation speed inconsistencies

[Stan Busk]

Great! Thanks. I will wait for the fix then.

Stan

> on 5/14/03 7:50 PM, Stan Busk at maxprog at mac.com wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have made tests creating a database with several tables on Mac OS X,
>> Windows 98 and XP. I get awful results with XP. It is x13 slower than 
>> X
>> and almost x3 slower than my old PC with Windows 98...
>>
>> G4/533/1,5GB.................6"
>> P2/433MMX/256MB.............30"
>> P4/2Ghz/512MB...............80"
>>
>> The database is made of 20 small tables containing some strings,
>> integer, boolean and double fields. The init function set a 5MB cache
>> and the create function use a segment size of 1024 to get small files.
>> Why is it so slow on XP and so fast on X?
>
> Hi Stan,
>
> This is known issue.
> I already have about 10 letters in my IN BOX, and 2 tests projects.
> So this becomes the highest priority issue.
>
> I have only one idea. Windows works with Flush() in some strange way.
> I want in debugger to see this.
>
> But right now I already have simple and effective way to improve this.
> On db.Create() I can set some flag and if this flag is ON, DO NOT flush
> cache at all during creation. Speed must be then maximal.
> And this is safe, because we create NEW database files. Even if crash 
> of
> system happens, it is not big problem trash files, and make new once 
> again.
>
>
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> Best regards,
> Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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