1.3 ?
Lloyd,
Yes, most published figures show the 32K buffer size numbers, but on all
of my diskperfs, I get between 2 – 3.5 times faster with 512 byte buffer sizes.
For me the directory scan speed increase is the one that I notice the most, and
again that shows 2 – 3 times faster.
I think you'll find, that after 1.3 and FFS becomes availiable, developers
will start to take advantage of the speed increases with larger buffer sizes.
ie. speed up picture loads. load the entire file into a ram buffer (if ram is
availiable) and the decompress and decode. That should speedup loads by about 5
– 10 times.
-Dean