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In bigpage mode, we always read large pages, regardless of the amount of bytes requested by the caller. Excess bytes are simply discarded. This is inefficient because the same large page will be downloaded multiple times, when requesting more than one 16 byte page from the same large page. By caching the pages internally, we can greatly reduce the amount of I/O operations. In practice, applications and also libdivecomputer's internal algorithm for downloading the dives will typically request contiguous pages, so we only need to cache the last page. This implementation is based on ideas and code contributed by Dirk Hohndel.
Overview ======== Libdivecomputer is a cross-platform and open source library for communication with dive computers from various manufacturers. The official web site is: http://www.libdivecomputer.org/ The sourceforge project page is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdivecomputer/ Installation ============ On UNIX-like systems (including Linux, Mac OS X, MinGW), use the autotools based build system. Run the following commands from the top directory (containing this file) to configure, build and install the library and utilities: $ ./configure $ make $ make install If you downloaded the libdivecomputer source code directly from the git source code repository, then you need to create the configure script as the first step: $ autoreconf --install To uninstall libdivecomputer again, run: $ make uninstall Support ======= Please send bug reports, feedback or questions to the mailing list: http://libdivecomputer.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel or contact me directly: jef@libdivecomputer.org License ======= Libdivecomputer is free software, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.