Re: GNAT/Ada95 Streams Performance Issue

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

Larry Hazel <lhhazel@otelco.net> wrote in message news:<3D590D80.201@otelco.net>...
> Robert,
> After reading your reply and trying to remember what I did, I think the byte SIO 
>   program was the first attempt and not very fast.  I vaguely remember doing 
> something with direct io and large arrays of bytes for the program that was 
> faster than cp.
> Larry


That certainly makes more sense. The trouble is of course
that with Direct_IO you can't deal nicely with the last
partial block (you are also depending very much on impl
dependent choices in how Direct_IO works).

Stream_IO should have the speed advantage without these
disadvantages.