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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Replacement for Text_IO? (was Re: C bug of the day)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 08:46:10 +0000 (UTC)
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Dale Stanbrough <dstanbro@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
: Gautier Write-only wrote:
: 
:> Dale Stanbrough:
:> 
:> > Everyone laments the slowness of Text_IO,
:> 
:> Who ? Who ?
: 
: Are you an owl? I'm sure one "who?" would do.
: 
: Ok, it was a bit of hyperbole. -I- don't like the slowness of Text_IO :-)
: 
: Robert Dewar at one point noted that the presence of these extra
: "features" prevents certain optimisations in the coding from taking
: place.
: 
: One quote from him...
: 
: 
: "Text_IO is convenient for small scale or occasional use for small
: amounts of formatted output (compare it to ACCEPT and DISPLAY use
: in COBOL). It is not the appropriate interface for large scale I/O
: where performance is critical."

What's wrong with streams?


Georg