stdio performance in tango, stdlib, and perl

[kris]

Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> kris wrote:
[snip]
>> Tango should still come out in front, although I have to say that 
>> benchmarks don't really tell very much in general i.e. doesn't mean 
>> much of anything important whether tango "wins" this or not (IMO)
> 
> 
> Why not? 

If tango were terribly terribly slow instead, then it would be cause for 
concern. If I have some program that needs to run faster I'll find a way 
to do just that; another reason why tango.io is fairly modular


[snip]

> I was actually surprised that nobody noticed phobos' low I/O speed in 
> years. It's a maker or breaker for me and many others.

That assumes IO performance wasn't brought up as an issue before ;)


> If there's any chance that automated chopping could be removed from 
> Tango, that would be awesome. Also it would be great to fix the 
> incompatibility created by using read/write instead of getline.

Sure; could you submit a ticket for it, please, lest it fall by the 
wayside?

http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/newticket