Linux vs. libio

[Kevin Atkinson]

On 21 Dec 1999, Per Bothner wrote:

> Kevin Atkinson <kevinatk@home.com> writes:
> 
> > >From http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/standard_library.html:
> > ...
> > Which is what I was trying to get at.  By directly maniplulating FILE
> > one avoids the extra overhead.
> 
> Wise man say: "Every problem in computer science can be solved
> by adding an extra level of indirection."   While SGI's technique
> is clever, it is basically just another layer of indirection.
> Specifically, you get at least two extra memory de-references
> even in the fast case.

Will that extra level of indirection *really* make a diffrence in speed I
mean IO is something which is fairly slow in the first place.

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