On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > I just realized something. If files are rounded to the size which is the > > > next power of 2, doesn't that mean that in the worst case, where the file > > > has size n bytes, wasted space is anything up to (n-1) bytes? And in the > > > average case (n/2) bytes? Is this space actually wasted? Is the empty > > > space padded with zeros or random data? > > No, the worst case is n/2. The average case is 3n/4. Unless we are > Err, the average case is n/4.
I know what you mean. See previous message. :-) Gordan _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
