stdio performance in tango, stdlib, and perl

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Roberto Mariottini wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> /**********************************
>>  * Read line from stream fp and write it to buf[],
>>  * including terminating '\n'.
> 
> Nooo!
> Please get rid of such a awful Perl-ish hack!

Please justify your statements instead of using emotion, rhetoric, and 
implied assumptions.

Andrei