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Anatomy of a Read and Write Call (Linux Journal)

[Posted September 23, 2002 by ris]

Linux Journal dissects the anatomy of a read/write call. "As it turned out, the gcc benchmark was the one that everyone seemed to be improving on the most. As we analyzed what the benchmark was doing, we found out that basically it opened a file, read its contents, created a new file, wrote new contents, then closed both files. It did this over and over and over."

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