Re: [MacPerl] MacPERL Performace vs. Intel Class systems

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

This issue clearly needs more investigation from me. However, I think it has
had its share of discussion on the list by now, so could I ask all of you to
close the debate for a while?

bradley@aux.marc.usda.gov (Randy Bradley) writes:
I (Matthias) had foolishly written:
>>You all have correctly identified file system performance as the bottleneck.
>
>  I guess all of you cannot be wrong.  However, I'm not so easy to
>convince.

Yes, your C example pretty much shoots down the entire file system argument.

>I do think that the file system on Mac is geared toward
>binary/block IO and can suffer greatly doing text IO, depending on the
>compiler/intrepreter.

As much as I've been wrong before on this issue, I'll predict that this
hypothesis is also wrong. MacPerl (the released versions) uses the exact same
Metrowerks stdio library as your example.

Matthias

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