Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Disk performance under Minix
Message-ID: <1989Aug28.153612.8689@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <21978@louie.udel.EDU> <2141@ditsyda.oz> <3076@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 15:36:12 GMT

In article <3076@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>These two measurements seem to suggest that a factor of four can be won
>by improving stdio.  That package was written by one of my students who
>was enthusiastic but not very experienced.  What did you do to stdio to get
>this big gain?

You might want to look at the souped-up stdio stuff we ship with C News.
It's the fastest implementation of fread, fwrite, fgets, and fputs we
know of.  It is somewhat AT&T-Unix-stdio-specific in its details, but the
methods should apply widely.
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