stdio performance in tango, stdlib, and perl

[kris]

Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
[snip]
> Oh, but I forgot it's cheating: uses read/write so it's incompatible 
> with C's stdio, which phobos is.

How can it possibly be "cheating" when the code was in place before you 
contrived this test ;)

I think you have to stretch a bit to find some /common/ and truly valid 
cases where what you refer to is important enough to warrant such 
attention.

If it truly were to become an issue (people actually run into problems 
with it on a regular basis) then tango.io could be changed to 
special-case this kind of thing; but at this time we prefer to avoid 
such things and adhere to the KISS principal instead.

FWIW, tango.io could trivially be sped up significantly on this 'test' 
-- as it stands, the implementation is quite pedestrian in nature ;)