[PD] Textfile vs. Lists vs. Arrays vs. ?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Fri Feb 26 20:36:04 CET 2010


Hallo,
saint hat gesagt: // saint wrote:

> I suppose what I'm asking is, would I get better performance if I wasn't
> constantly calling upon text files on the hard disk?

Yes. Hard disk access is a real latency killer and it's only save if done in a
separate thread like readsf~ does it. 

So either use some kind of memory "disk" as suggested here as well, or load
files into memory in whatever fashion suits you.

Ciao
-- 
Frank




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