Writev

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Mon Dec 20 12:12:07 EST 2004


Adam DePrince wrote:
[snip great explanation]
> I want to include it because POSIX has a single OS call that
> conceptually maps pretty closely to writelines.  writev can be faster
> because you don't have to do memory copies to buffer data in one place
> for it -- the OS will do that, and can sometimes delegate that chore to
> the underlying network or scsi card.  

Thanks that helped a lot!

Steve



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