On Monday, 9 January 2017 at 20:12:38 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Probably a bug, though I don't like using the getch function, I usually use the full input stream.
For direct interactions (a game menu or similar) getting individual characters makes sense; I can't help but think Rogue-likes. However for data input (per line basis) or doing bulk data/processing, it doesn't work well.
Something to comment on, a while back when I was first getting into C and MS-DOS assembly programming, I did a direct file-copy using only one character input/write at a time. A meg sized file probably took a minute or so while if I did something as small as a 4k buffer it took moments (approx 8000x faster). This was back in 1996 or so, still it's obvious the advantages of working in bulk.
