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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: sfio
To: black@zen.cypher.net (Ben Black)
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 09:43:45 -0700 (MST)
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> 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).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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