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Subject: Re: Cache size
Author: Charles Yeomans
Posted: 2001/10/31 11:40:24
 
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On Wednesday, October 31, 2001, at 10:16 AM, Bill Mounce wrote:

>>> ValentinaInit (3 * 1024 * 1024, "", "")
>>>
>>> Do you have recommendation for the next several sizes bigger?
>>
>> There is no any recommendation,
>>
>> you can give as many as you can on your hardware.
>
> The problem is that the docs don't tell anywhere what "1024 * 1024"
> actually
> means. I changed it to:
>
> ValentinaInit (3 * 2048* 2048, "", "")
>
> Does this double the cache? Quadruple it? Thanks.
>

It quadruples it. The first argument of ValentinaInit is the size of
the cache in bytes. 3*1024*1024 = 3 megabytes. 3 * 2048* 2048 = 12
megabytes.

Charles Yeomans
 
©2001 Charles Yeomans
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