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Date: Sat,  5 Dec 2009 09:09:39 -0800
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ideas for helpful system io functions
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On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org> wrote:
> I mostly agree, but, if you read one char at a time it's likely you'll
> become quite
> slow, in general.

Absolutely right. It's very application dependent. But for an httpd, I
doubt that this slowness would matter.

Anyway, I think Sam has something to work on, namely, try several
things out and let us know what he ends up liking best :-)

ron