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From: Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>
Subject: Re: Horrible ftruncate performance
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 05:49:07 +0200 (MEST)
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Dieter [iso-8859-1] N=FCtzel wrote:
> >
> >>More than 506 times...
> >>=3D> 506.34 seconds (8:26.34) / 0.01 seconds =3D 50.634 times ;-)))
> >
> > I guess you mean 50,634 or 50634 times faster? But I'm afraid you didn't
> > test what you should have. Interestingly, the above speedup, 50 times, =
is
> > just what I got with Oleg's patch. So now it's only about 2000 times sl=
ower
> > than XFS, JFS and ext3.
>
> This is an i18n issue. In Germany, the meaning of "." and "," in numbers
> is just the reverse of U.S. usage. Of course, we Germans argue the U.S. do
> it backwards.
> Pi=3D3,14159265....
> fifty thousand six hundred thirty four=3D50.634

I know very well, but we are communicating in English, not German.

	Szaka