Re: Reading and Writing Files at the C level


Damon Courtney wrote:
Is there any significant performance hit from using the Tcl
functions (Tcl_Read, Tcl_Write) at the C level over using the lower
functions (fread, fwrite or read, write)? This is for both Windows and
UNIX.

The performance hit shouldn't be dramatic... I at least did not
recognize any performance dropdown at all until now.
A definitive advantage of the Tcl funcctions is, that the are Tcl-FS
and VFS aware. That means e.g., that you can read files from Starkits
and other virtual file systems - what you can not with the lower
functions.

Eckhard

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