slow I/O (was: initialization problem)

[Godmar Back]

> 
> On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Godmar Back wrote:
> 
> >  We know.
> > Somebody needs to sit down and implement a mini-stdio (don't use the
> > normal stdio as previously discussed on that list) that reads 8K or 
> > something buffers at a time and then copies data from there.  This should 
> > be a short exercise.  Patches are welcome!
> > 
> > 	- Godmar
> > 
> 
> Godmar,
> 	is this the reason that pizza seems to have become awfully
> 	slow ? it was some time I wasn't using it, and now my ARM
> 	port takes a life to run the tests and all the time seems
> 	to be spent in compiling them.
> 

The patch that removed the use of stdio was committed as rev 1.2
of jar.c:

date: 1998/05/28 20:13:46;  author: cvs-gback;  state: Exp;  lines: +15 -10
removed use of stdio in jar.c, added JARFILES debug target

which predates 1.0b1.

Pizza was updated 9/30.

	- Godmar