On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Daniel Koepke wrote:
>As for I/O stuff, that wasn't my code, it was the person's that I was
>replying to. And if I recall, the person made it clear that it's
>better to do stuff in memory rather than through I/O system calls (can
>we say, "duh," class?).
And for processors like the Alpha which has a huge memory/cpu bus speed
disparity, you want to make intelligent use of your memory...
(Not that most people try to optimize a MUD that far...)
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http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard
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