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Article #4154Re: Modula2's godawful IO.
From: Wayne A. Christopher
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 20:19
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1988 20:19
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In article <730@mhuxm.UUCP>, gak@mhuxm.UUCP (Vincent Hatem) writes: > Besides, the whole idea of the WriteCard()-style I/O system is to remove the > 20K overhead that printf() adds to programs. 95% of the functionality of > printf() is never used, and you're just making your text segment larger. I doubt this is the reason -- hardly anybody cares about text segment size any more, and in any case, printf is only 2K, not 20K. (In Ultrix -- your mileage may vary.) Wayne
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pasteur!ic.Berkeley.EDU!faustus From: faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: Modula2's godawful IO. Message-ID: <2331@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Date: 12 Apr 88 20:19:41 GMT References: <730@mhuxm.UUCP> <764@ndsuvax.UUCP> <535@m10ux.UUCP> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu Lines: 10