Artur Skawina <art_k@xxxxx> wrote: > ups, missed this previously -- ignore my comment wrt to seeks... > A function call i can live with :) how could inlining help about the relative slowness of syscalls? the slow thing about syscalls is not the function call but the jump into kernel space. also, nobody uses syscall (2) directly anyway, instead we have read(), write(), lseek() ... wrappers. did i miss something here? best regards ... clemens