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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Efficient Stream_IO
Date: 13 Apr 2004 07:12:49 -0400
Date: 2004-04-13T07:12:49-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.248.1081854780.327.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnc7n9oa.oj.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de>

Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de> writes:

> Is there a portable way to implement efficient IO on streams?

Depends on how wide a range of hardware and OS you mean by "portable".

The Ada language tries hard to be portable to no OS, hardware that has
39 bit "bytes", hardware that has ones-complement integer arithmetic,
etc.

If you restrict "portable" to mean an OS with a TCP stack, and
hardware with 8 bit bytes, things are much simpler. In fact, the code
you wrote is probably portable among that set.

-- 
-- Stephe




  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-13 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-13  8:38 Efficient Stream_IO Lutz Donnerhacke
2004-04-13 11:12 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2004-04-13 11:32   ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2004-04-14 19:54     ` Pascal Obry
2004-04-15  8:13       ` Martin Dowie
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