reddit discussion on replacing Python in 0install

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:58:33 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> 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.

The 80's are a long time ago.  Plus, your posting of the source code  
pretty much refutes that your buffering scheme takes into account how  
important this should be.  It ignores alignment of writes if you add an  
fflush in between writes.

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

That's good, because the floppy DOS days are pretty much over :)

-Steve