Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:18:28 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: horrible disk thorughput on itanium |
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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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