From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-06-21T09:33:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is I/O slow?

Hi,

In message "Re: Why is I/O slow?"
    on 02/06/20, Clifford Heath <cjh_nospam@managesoft.com> writes:

|Either way, ruby can't do this, but it can use fread! What about it Matz?
|Since fread is almost as fast as read, the restriction on not mixing
|sysread and read could perhaps be relaxed too?

It's due to stdio buffering.  In the future version, Ruby will do its
own IO buffering without using stdio, so that it can tweak IO buffer
freely without portability problem.

							matz.