From: Paul Repacholi [prep@morwong.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 7:55 AM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Re: Big AlphaServer Sale "Fred Kleinsorge" writes: > This is certainly an area that could stand carefully thought out > improvement. Thought? Take gzip. change the open to use multi-buff, and big IOs, add RAH,WBH and give it decent initial extents and allocations. *ONE* line! Complile allof it in one go, /plus_list with full DECC tweeking and see up to 20 fold increase in speed. Oh, and possibly a few latent bugs. It is some thought vs no thought. PS tailor.h is the file... -- Paul Repacholi 1 Crescent Rd., +61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda. West Australia 6076 Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked.