Re: stdio vs syscall

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On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 02:38 +0100, ninjaboy wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I've just a curiosity, maybe OT here...
> Is better to use stdio function (printf, sscanf, fprintf) or directly
> write/read on socket?
> Sorry for offtopic if i'm offtopic.
answer is "depends"

stdio provides buffering, so if you do lots of small io's it'll be
faster

fd based apis are less overhead for large io's, but don't do any
buffering at all.. you get what you get

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