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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei@online.no>
Subject: Re: Text_IO for other standard types
Date: 1998/01/14
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> It would make a nice student project to redesign the interface to remove
> the page/line nonsense, then recode the body (it is more than jsut
> removing code, you can in some cases do things multiple characters at
> a time which are now done one character at a time because of the page/line
> stuff, you can also remove a lot of junk used to support strange cases.

I second this. It would be a welcome addition.

The page/line stuff is not exactly nonsense, but a very strange priority
of allocating resources. It is almost exclusively useful for generating
reports. It's about as useful as the bit_order attribute - if my
interpretation of 13.5.3 matches reality.


> Then the project would measure the speed gain. I share Dale's suspicion
> that it would be substantial.


Isn't it usually the I/O time that is dominant in situations like this?
BTW. I have yet to inspect the actual code.

Greetings,

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