Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!dave From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Speeding up Unix Message-ID: <387@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 13:00:49 EST Article-I.D.: lsuc.387 Posted: Mon Feb 11 13:00:49 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 16:34:35 EST References: <3745@ucla-cs.ARPA> Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 7 Summary: buffer your stdout! Forget kernel mods. There's one simple change at the applications program level which make a huge difference to many interactive programs. Simple call setbuf on stdout, and put fflush(stdout) where appropriate. Make sure you don't miss any important fflush's, though. -- {utzoo pesnta nrcaero utcs}!lsuc!dave {allegra decvax ihnp4 linus}!utcsrgv!lsuc!dave