From: tih@hamartun.priv.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Subject: Line Terminators in Text Files [
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2017 19:24:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m23772u6g7.fsf@thuvia.hamartun.priv.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VS8TNJSStmgSyT9xifbqtbsWQqN_0XaPss2oVwJn3B=8Q@mail.gmail.com> (Paul Winalski's message of "Mon, 4 Sep 2017 13:29:59 -0400")
Paul Winalski <paul.winalski at gmail.com> writes:
> RMS finally got a true stream mode interface circa VAX/VMS version 5,
> three releases after the DEC C compiler was first released.
I ported C-TeX to VAX/VMS 5, using the straight stream mode for I/O, and
was annoyed by how slow it was. I ended up writing my own glue to have
it write binary RMS files in 512 byte blocks instead, and the speed
increase was very gratifying. We're talking several times faster.
I remember how this made our VAX 780 able to process TeX files at just
about the same speed as my 12MhZ 286 PC, when I was alone on the system
at night. Then I discovered it did it just as fast during the day, with
about a hundred other users on the machine. :)
-tih
--
Most people who graduate with CS degrees don't understand the significance
of Lisp. Lisp is the most important idea in computer science. --Alan Kay
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-03 20:06 [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2017-09-03 21:42 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-04 17:29 ` Paul Winalski
2017-09-04 18:34 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-04 20:28 ` ron minnich
2017-10-01 17:24 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo [this message]
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