[Kstars-devel] Loading all star name data into memory in StarComponent::readData

[James Bowlin]

On Tue June 3 2008, Akarsh Simha wrote:
> It seems to make no difference on my system, but will temporarily use
> quite some memory to store the names. Although memory usage is
> negligible, I decided to revert my changes and just keep a patch.

Once either file is cached, no seeks will be needed so you shouldn't see 
any difference in timing.  If you have a system monitor running (such 
as GKrellm) you might even see that there is no disk activity (if both
files are cached).

To really test this, you would have to clear out your cache before 
running the code (both with and without the patch).  One way to clear 
the buffer is to cat a very large file to /dev/null.

I'm happy to just leave this be for now.  It is a minor thing that we 
can come back to later if it seems important.


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Peace, James