On 3/16/2012 4:04 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Never say never. There are I/O routines that are specialized for several OSs and fall back to a generic (slower) implementation.
I'm going to suggest that is wrong as well. It's fine for a new port to use a generic slow implementation, but that ought to be a deliberate choice, *not* a default that went unnoticed during the porting process.