Messages in this thread | | | From | Ian Lance Taylor <> | Date | Mon, 15 Apr 96 16:09:08 EDT | Subject | Re: Linux-1.3.88 - Code Freeze |
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In linux.activists.kernel Linus writes:
>In short, for many programs there is not much of a difference. Sadly, >some programs are especially stupid, and one exacmple of this is "as", if >I remember correctly. At least some versions of the GNU assembler did a >"write()" system call for every instruction, so you ended up with _huge_ >amounts of NFS packets.
Just for the record, this is not true of current versions of the GNU assembler. The GNU assembler has used stdio for quite a while now.
Ian
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