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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > has anyone played with sfio?  it looks like a valuable replacement for
> > stdio...
> >
> > http://www.oasis.leo.org/perl/src/independent/sfio.dsc.html
> 
> It isn't significantly faster on FreeBSD because of the cache
> unification making normal I/O faster.
> 
> Last time I checked, there were still a couple of coherency
> problems (missing msync() calls, if I recall correctly).

but the authors have a good pedigree.