From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 30 21:10:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA06651 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:10:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA06630 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/) with SMTP id AAA20649; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 00:10:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA17500; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 00:10:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 00:09:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Ben Black cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sfio In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Ben Black wrote: > as i said, *looks* like a valuable replacement. i think it is worth > investigating further. my experience has been it is faster than stdio. > also, the sfdesc library is *very* nice. I'm just wary of exchanging a knows set of bugs for an unknown set. If you have comments on it, I'd be really interested in that. > > On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Ben Black 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 > > > > > > > Nice to look at, but for something that's so very pivotally important to > > nearly everything, I think some more experience with it is needed. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > > chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > > 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | > > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD > > (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------