Re: [RFC] - Some notions that I would like comments on

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:23:21 +0200

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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I'm doing some work at the moment to restructure ELF files so that
> read-ahead is always the best thing to do. It collects usage
> statistics on the ELF file, and regroups it so that the pages appear
> on disk in the order in which they're used. This is primarily useful
> for speeding up the initial flurry of demand loading when you start up
> something big (eg, netscape).

How do you regroup the ELF file?
By reordering disk blocks, or by changing the contents?

This relates to whether you mean read-ahead in the file, or read-ahead on disk.

-- Jamie

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