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Re: [HACKERS] Safe/Fast I/O ...

Matthew N. Dodd <winter@jurai.net>

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From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-04-12T05:41:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> Has anyone looked into this?  I'm just getting ready to download it and
> play with it, see what's involved in using it.  From what I can see, its
> essentially an optimized stdio library...
> 
> URL is at: http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/sfio

Using mmap and/or AIO would be better...

FreeBSD and Solaris support AIO I believe.  Given past trends Linux will
as well.

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