Aug. 28, 2005
3:35 p.m.
I'm not convinced. Where would you ever care about reading a file in N-bytes chucks?
This was once a standard paradigm for IBM mainframe files. I vaguely remember having to specify the block/record size when opening such files. I have no idea of today's practice though.
I believe this still comes up in 100% of the cases where you're buffering reads of large binary files. Given lot of RAM, this probably doesn't come up as much nowadays. Raymond