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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: CRC in Ada?
Date: 1997/03/07
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Date: 1997-03-07T00:00:00+00:00
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TD/DELAB (?) said

<<It may certainly be less effective, but I cannot think of any
implementation where it would be a disaster. The C single char IO
operations are not complicated, and have very little overhead. What
makes you think otherwise?
>>

I'll tell you what. Go measure the relative speed of reading a 1 meg
file a character at a time, vs using read to read the entire 1 meg at
a time. Do this measurement on at least six different systems. Come
back here with the results and we will discuss them!