On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Todd Vierling wrote:

> Not to mention that this would induce unnecessary overhead in threadless
> programs.  Think m68k and VAX.

And much faster machines, too. A 500 MHz Pentium III can't do more
than about 4-5 MB/sec to disk using getc() and putc() under Linux
due to this sort of thing.

cjs
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