Hi Craig,
Is it possible using the CRTL? I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect
Perl to do better than C can do. Here's what seems to me like the
relevant section from the CRTL manual:
No, it's not reasonable to expect Perl to do better than CRTL. I hadn't
consulted the CRTL manual before making my comments.
When I'm writing programs I assume that each 'print' statement will
result
in one output record. I susppose you could arrange for each 'print'
to be
followed by a flush to disk at that point, but of course performance
would
probably suffer.
What about printing a list? Should each list item produce a new
record, or should all elements be coalesced into a single (potentially
humongous) write because they all came from one print statement? I'm
not sure a print statement that can function as a list operator maps
very well onto your assumption; Perl ain't Fortran.
Fair enough!
Jeremy
