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From: tih@hamartun.priv.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Subject: [TUHS] History of strncpy
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:31:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2txq677qa.fsf@athene.hamartun.priv.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74E8EAAB-FC12-49BE-9B1A-CE991DFDA39D@ronnatalie.com> (Ronald Natalie's message of "Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:01:41 -0500")

Ronald Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> writes:

> Ah yes, VAX C.  You're right about that one.  It had a completing
> different internal implementation of the FILE struct.  While I
> supervised a team of VAX VMS programmers, that's one of the platforms
> I never dabbled in directly.

I ported C-TeX to VAX/VMS many years ago, and got a huge performance
increase when I swapped the built-in FILE interface to RMS stream files
for one I wrote myself, which explicitly did block I/O on RMS binary
files instead.  That was a fun project.  :)

-tih
-- 
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart
you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.  -Richard Feynman



  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-24 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-23 17:56 Michael Spacefalcon
2013-01-23 21:08 ` Larry McVoy
2013-01-23 21:39 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-23 21:46   ` John Cowan
2013-01-24  6:02     ` Larry McVoy
2013-01-24  6:34       ` Steve Nickolas
2013-01-24 14:42       ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-24 14:52         ` Warner Losh
2013-01-24 16:01           ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-24 18:31             ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo [this message]
2013-01-25  2:06               ` Warner Losh
2013-01-24 16:21           ` Clem Cole
2013-02-01  0:28             ` Larry McVoy
2013-01-31 23:52           ` Random832
2013-02-01  0:06             ` Warner Losh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-01-23  4:03 Nevin Liber
2013-01-23  4:41 ` Warren Toomey
2013-01-23  4:58 ` Warner Losh
2013-01-23 14:16 ` Clem Cole
2013-01-23 15:01   ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-23 15:24     ` Armando Stettner
2013-01-23 17:49       ` scj
2013-01-23 18:19       ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-23 19:33         ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-23 19:59           ` Clem Cole
2013-01-23 22:43     ` Mary Ann Horton
2013-01-24  0:01       ` Clem Cole
2013-01-24  0:37 ` Jonathan Gevaryahu

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