Re: Why some PC C compilers ar

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From: Kendall Bennett
Date: Tue, 19 May 1992 03:27

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Kai_Henningsen@ms.maus.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:

>I'm not astonished. Did you look at how DJGPP does I/O? No? Don't look there,
>you might get nightmares! :-)

I did have a quick look, and I was not impressed.

>What it does is, first, everything goes through the DJ/GNU/BSD-Libraries; then,
>when it arrives at the actual read()/write(), it calls an interrupt which is
>intercepted by the driver. The driver, in turn, calls Borland's read()/write()
>routines, which may even do a (very slow) cr/lf<->lf translation.

>No wonder it's slow.

Ek. At least that clears that point up..

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