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RE: Writing LARGE FILES

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Elvis Budimlic wrote:

I can tell you that I didn't have much luck with fopen and other f* type
apis but have had great success with their sister apis like open, read,
write etc.
Perhaps you would have the same luck with those?

My experience today reveals that using file descriptor I/O is absolutely, ridiculously awful. Two small, otherwise identical programs doing the same I/O but one using file descriptors (i.e. open(), read()) and the other using file pointers (i.e. fopen(), fread()). The file descriptor program was more than 10 times slower.

James Rich

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