Re: Faster reading

[John Carter <john@dwaf-hri.pwv.gov.za>]

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 merry::satchell@hermes.dra.hmg.gb wrote:

> If I/O is an overhead when loading files, why not just slurp the whole
> thing in one go by using read (the c read, not the scheme one). 
> 	if((file = fopen(filename, "r")) == NULL)

No-no-no. If you're going to effectively roll your own buffering, at
least push aside libc's. ie. Go one step lower in the hierarchy use
open() and read() rather than fopen and fread.

But yes, on modern systems going stat(),open(),read() the whole damn
thing works actually very well on source code.


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