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File Structures (Second Edition) by M J Folk & W Zoellick
Recommended

ISBN: 0-201-55713-4 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pages: 588pp Price: £33-95.

Categories: internals and hardware

Reviewed by Francis Glassborow in C Vu 4-3 (Mar 1992)

Yet another second edition, and like the first, an excellent product. It is not about the specific file structures of common application packages so if you want to find out about PCX files this book will be of no use to you. What it does is to present the principles for designing efficient file structures in clearly with appropriate background information. If you want to find out the pros and cons of different forms of secondary storage, the gains you can expect from caching and a multitude of other factors that need considering when designing a file structure for your program this is the book for you.

In simple terms, if you are writing a program whose performance is affected by access to storage devices this is a book that you ought to read and keep on your shelf afterwards.

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File Structures, An Object Oriented Approach with C++ by M. Folk [Recommended] (Reviewed May 1998)

Last Update - 13 May 2001.

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