[Ada] Performance improvements when writing temporary text files

Arnaud Charlet charlet@adacore.com
Mon Aug 17 09:37:00 GMT 2009


> since the underlying C library also does buffering,

It does not, can you clarify what you have in mind?

> is this really helpful?

Yes it is, on slow drives.

> And wouldn't it be better to simply inform the library as
> to what the desired buffer size is?

There's no such capability, the code is using write() directly.

Arno



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