From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:15:13 +0200

Bill Janssen wrote:
> Why doesn't the sector buffer in the "readwrite" function already do
> the necessary buffering?

The sector buffer in the readwrite function does the buffering, and it
works perfectly fine. The "nasty inefficiency" in this special case is
that readline reads 1 byte at a time from the sector buffer, calling
memcpy to copy a single byte.

Again, I don't think it's a big deal, since readline is used to read
config files, highscores and stuff, hardly time critical.

Linus
Received on 2006-07-18