Read text file fast, how?

[Bigsandwich via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 26 July 2015 at 14:36:09 UTC, Johan Holmberg wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 10:12 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via 
> Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>>[...]
> My C++ program was actually doing C-style IO via <stdio.h>. I 
> didn't think about the distinction C/C++ when reporting the 
> earlier numbers.
>
> [...]

It would be interesting to see numbers for the stdio.h code in D 
since it should be easy to translate and would rule it issues 
with compiler vs library.