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From: faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Modula2's godawful IO.
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Date: 12 Apr 88 20:19:41 GMT
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In article <730@mhuxm.UUCP>, gak@mhuxm.UUCP (Vincent Hatem) writes:
> Besides, the whole idea of the WriteCard()-style I/O system is to remove the
> 20K overhead that printf() adds to programs. 95% of the functionality of 
> printf() is never used, and you're just making your text segment larger.

I doubt this is the reason -- hardly anybody cares about text segment size
any more, and in any case, printf is only 2K, not 20K.  (In Ultrix -- your
mileage may vary.)

	Wayne