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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: edit first line of long file
Message-ID: <1896@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Date: 26 Oct 90 00:02:25 GMT
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In article <10201:Oct2404:23:3890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>
>Huh? *Nothing* is going to run more quickly than cat, and programs that
>do any sort of processing are guaranteed to run more slowly. How about
>timing these things for yourself?
>

Don't be stupid.  It depends how cat is implemented.  I remember being
horrified to find that one verison of cat used stdio fread/fwrite. And
they were implemented as _two_ nested loops with a getc/putc in the
middle.  Was that _slow_ or what?

Gotta watch out for those `universal affirmitives' :-)


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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