cc: james.d.carlson at sun.com kpv at research.att.com Subject: Re: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] final ksh93 code review, round two (July 9) --------
Just a word about the AST stdio implementation. It is built using the sfio library routines that Phong Vo and I wrote around 1990 and presented at USENIX. The library is source compatible with ANSI C stdio.h. In addition, on most architectures, we generate binary compatibilty as well so that existing binaries compiled with stdio.h should work without recompilation. I beleive that it outperforms all the other stdio implementations (at least the ones we have tested) even in binary compatibilty mode. It has a lot of features often not available in stdio libraries such as using memory mapping and adaptive buffering. David Korn dgk at research.att.com
