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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: CRC in Ada?
Date: 1997/03/06
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Fergus asks

<<>In my experience it is generally C programmers who make this mistake.

Why is it a mistake?>>

Tell you what Fergus, do a whole lot of timing tests comparing reading
character by character and reading large blocks, and come back and tell
us if it did not tell you the answer to that questin :-)