Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!harmonica.cis.ohio-state.edu!schanck From: schanck@harmonica.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Schanck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Turbo C 2.0 Text I/O Keywords: turboc, ega, cursor Message-ID: <76669@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 5 Feb 90 20:15:03 GMT References: <11198@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <14015@reed.UUCP> <2036@bnr-rsc.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Christopher Schanck Distribution: na Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 20 In article <2036@bnr-rsc.UUCP> mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord) writes: >Along similar lines, I recently rewrote the dos.c module of STEVIE to use >the Turbo-C text library for FAST output, and discovered that the library ^^^^ This always puzzles me. People are often remarking on how fast TC's text IO libraries are, but I found them to be extremely slow. I ended up writing my own screen IO package in assembler, and it is very much faster than TC's. I have been using TC since it first came out -- am I just missing something? Chris -=- See Mom, I can prove that cleaning my apartment is unsolvable by doing a reduction from the National Deficit problem, which is obviously unsolvable! Christopher Schanck (schanck@cis.ohio-state.edu)