[Bf-committers] [Bf-blender-cvs] SVN commit: /data/svn/bf-blender [12358] branches/particles/source/blender: PointCache functions for physics solvers to store their data in, includes a pointCache modifier that can read and write animation point c

[Joe Eagar]

GSR wrote:
>> not sure what buffer sizes typical implementations use, though.
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> 1-16K seem typical, so maybe it would be worth to use setvbuf and
> change to some more K anyway. Or even gzip the streams, if after
> testing CPU usage vs disk I/O shows an improvement.
>
> GSR
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> _
Oh yeah, always zip-with-level-1 cache data.  In my own tests with my 
tiling cache system, it very significantly sped up disk IO. 

Joe