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Date: 2005-03-22T16:30:00+00:00

> Text_IO is pretty broken, from both a usability perspective and an
> efficiency perspective.  I normally avoid it, and use pragma Import on
> the C routines (open, read, etc).  Suitably wrapped in a clean
> interface, of course.

Bob, would you contribute an efficient Read procedure to this benchmark?

The speed difference is greater than I thought. Ada (with Text_IO) is 
about 10 times slower than the C benchmark. I had forgotten to compile 
the C benchmark with -O3.

This would be dandy:

    procedure Read (Buffer : out String; Length : out Natural);

reading from Standard_Input (this is required). Implemented with the C 
library if necessary (this is allowed, I think). (I know C well, but 
I'll be damned if I ever understand the view of C in Interfaces.C)

Thanks a lot.