Re: Pi program and hard disk usage

On Sep 28, 9:25 pm, mike3 <mike4...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 28, 12:44 pm, user923005 <dcor...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sep 27, 8:40 pm, mike3 <mike4...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
To minimize disk access, load only the pieces that actually
participate in a given phase of the multiplication into memory. So
you do not load either original number or any partial product into
memory as a complete number. Just load the hunks that directly
participate in the given phase of multiplication from the first number
and the second and only create partial product storage large enough to
hold the intermediate results.

Well I've done something that should take away
some of that disk access. However I've noticed
something else. It seems that sometimes when I
run the program it can go through a loop fairly
quickly, but then at other times it seems to pause
and take longer. What could be causing this,
anyway? Is there any way to mitigate it as it seems
to cause a large performance drop.

By the way, here is a more up-to-date source code
pack:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?atjbugtfgyb

I'm surprised that the pi program seems to have been quite
a "hit" -- it's gotten the most downloads of any file I've
uploaded to that site! :)

.

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