stdio performance in tango, stdlib, and perl

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> 
>> I've ran a couple of simple tests comparing Perl, D's stdlib (the coming
>> release), and Tango.
> 
> I have uploaded a snapshot with prebuilt libraries to 
> 
> http://larsivi.net/files/tango-SNAPSHOT-20070322.tar.gz
> 
> The prebuilt libraries are in the lib/ folder. Install libphobos.a as usual,
> and add libtango.a to your compile command. The test program (io.d below)
> should be compiled using the line
> 
> dmd -O -release -inline io.d libtango.a
> 
> io.d
> -------
> 
> import tango.io.Console;
> 
> void main() {
>     char[] line;
>     // true means that newlines are retained
>     while (Cin.nextLine(line, true))
>         Cout(line);
> }
> 
> --------

5.0s		tcat

Neat! Now that we got the performance problem out of the way, let's 
discuss stdio compatibility. I suggest you use getline on GNU platforms.

Andrei