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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
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Subject: Re: Optimization Question
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:59:49 GMT
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In article <94hmdt$nqd$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> The issue is that if you do a call for byte by byte, there
> is a lot of computational overhead. For example, this means
> you have to check for each byte written whether the file is
> currently open in the appropriate mode.

...transforming a small one-time overhead into 1,450,000 small one-time
overheads. Ahhhh....OK. You're right; I should have seen that.

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