On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:04 AM, Kuba Roth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ah indeed I got a crash. Thanks for clarification. I've been following > ccall examples in iostream.jl. Now it makes sense why the ios_write > function is used there. > I was wondering does Julia's stream related C functions (ios_write/read) > have any overhead over their standard C counterparts? > Certainly not compared to actually doing I/O. It's an alternative to fwrite which can be as fast or faster – both ultimately make system calls that actually send data to the kernel. It's pretty common for C libraries to have their own alternatives to fwrite, which are kind of limited and basic.
