stdio and Tango I/O performance

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> 
>> Over the past couple of weeks Walter and I have worked on improving 
>> the stdio module, following my shocking discovery that its performance 
>> was inadequate for any amount of serious coding. To say nothing about 
>> the lack of the input routines readf, readln, etc.
> 
> It's excellent news that std.stdio is finally getting revamped!
> Hopefully you were able to make some use of our previous code
> and suggestions, from the discussions held earlier (in 2005).

The only concern is the risk of concurrent development of stdio and 
Tango's I/O. It would be best to not balkanize the community by 
presenting them functionally almost equivalent interfaces. Phobos 
already has two, no, three mutually incompatible ways of dealing with 
files. I don't know how this can be approached effectively.


Andrei