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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Cache hit counter wanted
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Date: 6 Mar 90 13:58:34 GMT
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In article <29381@amdcad.AMD.COM> ching@pepsi.AMD.COM (Mike Ching) writes:
>
>A data point that you might find interesting is that I just booted my
>Compaq which has a cache program that keeps statistics and my autoexec.bat
>does 132 reads of which 26 are from the disk and 106 are from the cache.
>Seems like ANY cache program would be a big win.

How many lines in your .bat?  I think DOS goes back to disk to read each line;
or perhaps just each line following an external command.  But yes, batch files
should really improve from a cache.

Duncan Murdoch