>Hi Hilmar.
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>>Is there a performance cost if I set the blocksize in the memo to a single byte?
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>As usual, you'll have to test under your specific conditions to determine this. However, in testing I did several years ago, I was surprised to find no performance difference in using a blocksize of 1. I think the reason is that VFP internally reads and caches blocks of data and doesn't really read it from the file in blocksize increments.
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>Doug
Thanks.
Well, I thought there
might be a performance hit from other sources - like (perhaps) VFP taking longer to find unused space to save a memo field, or (again perhaps) a slightly greater probability of having to read data from more than one sector from disk. I understand that the operating system (or the disk system?) reads an entire sector at a time.
Hilmar.
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