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Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 14:22:42 +0200
From: Adrien Plisson <aplisson-news@stochastique.net>
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP Sockets with GNAT.Sockets
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fabio de francesco wrote:
> I only objected to that statement: "... however If the other end of the
> socket is a C-style server it will probely demand somthing like the
> following:..."

sorry, i misunderstood your statement...

> I supposed that Ada and C aren't different in that. I mean that, when a
> C program is to read/write a lot of data from/to a disk file or any
> other device, it is preferred to read/write large chunks of bytes
> altogether:

you are right, it is faster. but there are some cases where you can't 
read chunks, especially when you don't know the size of the data you 
have to read and you can't read too much data.

> What does make you think that? If you refer to my posted code, it was
> only a test to get acquainted to GNAT.Sockets.

i hope so ! but i've already seen people doing this...

-- 
rien