stdio line-streaming revisited

[Dave]

kris wrote:
> 
> FWIW: if some of those "Language Shootout" tests are IO-bound, perhaps 
> tango.io might help? Can't imagine they'd apply that as a "language" 
> test, but stranger things have happened before.
> 

FWIW: I think it's worth a lot <g> If D could come out convincingly on top for common I/O bound 
stuff, and do so with a "more modern" API than a C stdio clone, I would think that would be worth 
something to quite a few people.

IIRC, making the I/O as fast as C was time-consuming for quite a few of the current programs -- more 
so than even the GC. Even for the programs where I/O is not a "bottleneck" (but where I/O was 
involved), the faster implementation would still cut the overall time a bit anyway.

Alas, since Tango is not part of the std. distribution, I think they'd be very reluctant to add it - 
not only because of the extra workload for them, but simply because it's not considered std. for D. 
OTOH, they did add gmp4d for the pidigits test, but I think that was because it was easy to add via 
CVS, use through an altered command-line and there wasn't an alternative. If the same could be done 
for Tango, hmmm, perhaps...

- Dave