Record Size - Is there a strategy?

[Bob Stockler]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:08:47AM -0600, Lerebours, Jose wrote:
| Howdy!
| 
| One question I have never asked nor
| spoken with anyone about which I am
| finally asking:
| 
| Q. Is there a benefit in keeping my
|    record size divisible by 8?
| 
| Q. What would be a good record sizing
|    practice?  Other than keeping as
|    small as possible of course.

On Tandy 6000 Xenix, where records were read from the disk
in blocks of 256 bytes, I felt that records that were of
length 256, 128, 64, 32 or multiples of 256 characters
were read with more efficiency.  Keeping filePro's 20-byte
record header in mind, that would mean filePro record lengths
of 236, 108, 55, 12 or 492, 1005, etc.

Now days I doubt that it makes any matter at all.

Bob

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