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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada Shootout program for K-Nucleotide (patches)
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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:09:55 +0200
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On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:36:38 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Does it matter?  Gives C programmers the illusion that
> it is their language that makes I/O fast when it is
> Unix I/O and the wrappers that have naturally made it
> into its handy byproduct C.

Huh, Unix I/O is fast? I still remember good old times. Unix Sys V was at
least 5 times slower on a PDP-11 compared to RSX-11M. The reason? Unix used
an incredible amount of buffers mounted on buffers. An input character
travelled through 3-5 buffers before it landed in the program. RSX-11 I/O
was in-place with user-space single buffer passed to the driver. I think
the present situation is only worse, but there is nothing to compare with
(nobody would count Windows as a contender).

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de