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authorQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>2002-06-05 15:19:07 (GMT)
committerQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>2002-06-05 15:19:07 (GMT)
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[svn-r5535] Purpose:
New feature. Description: Added a "small data" block allocation mechanism to the library, similar to the mechanism used for allocating metadata currently. See the RFC for more details: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/RFC/SmallData/SmallData.html This reduces the number of I/O operations which hit the disk for my test program from 19 to 15 (i.e. from 393 to 15, overall). Platforms tested: Solaris 2.7 (arabica) w/FORTRAN and FreeBSD 4.5 (sleipnir) w/C++
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@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ New Features
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o General
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+ * Added internal "small data" aggregation, which can reduce the number of
+ actual I/O calls made, improving performance. QAK - 2002/06/05
* Improved internal metadata aggregation, which can reduce the number of
actual I/O calls made, improving performance. Additionally, this can
reduce the size of files produced. QAK - 2002/06/04