Hi Tom,
1) As implementing FASTOPEN would be a nontrivial task,
Indeed.
I suggest to find a use case where having FASTOPEN or not (on a MSDOS machine) makes a noticable difference.
Good idea. I assume some of us still have MS DOS installed.
of course you can also measure the time (for this use case) used by FileOpen(). 2) > https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/2d04cacc5322951f187bb17e017c12920ac8ebe2/v4.0/src/CMD/FASTOPEN/FASTOPEN.TXT mentions 'current database systems'. I don't think we have many 'current database systems' executing on top of FreeDOS.
Well, that is not a popular use case in 2024, I think, but people can use SQLITE or the DOS version of the free Clipper alternative xHarbour if they want to: http://www.xharbour.org/index.asp?page=download/dos/binaries_dos However, I have another idea where FASTOPEN could be quite useful: Think about many files in many directories and you end up thinking about compiling larger sources with one of those modern compilers people now use in DOS? Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
