reddit discussion on replacing Python in 0install

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri Jun 14 10:58:33 PDT 2013


On 6/14/2013 8:22 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> And quite honestly, if disk performance were dependent on user-land C buffering
> schemes, C runtime writers would pay more attention to the C buffering scheme
> and make sure it performs well!

Actually, this has been a common oversight of C runtime writers. My compiler was 
able to consistently beat others in I/O back in the 80's because I used a better 
buffering scheme in the runtime.

It's not the only anecdote I have about that, either.


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