Re: horrible disk thorughput on itanium

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:18:28 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Padraig Brady wrote:
>
> glibc does this also?
> from /usr/include/libio.h

Almost NOBODY uses "putc_unlocked()". It did not even _exist_ ten years
ago, and it's one of those POSIX things that very few people are aware of.

I know stdio is not historically the fastest way to do IO, but hey, that's
not an excuse for making it _really_ slow.

Linus

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