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Asynchronous buffered file I/O

Posted Jan 10, 2007 5:57 UTC (Wed) by ldo (subscriber, #40946)
In reply to: Asynchronous buffered file I/O by nix
Parent article: Asynchronous buffered file I/O

The extra overhead didn't matter for low-performance applications.

The high-performance applications tended to be written to use ASTs to report I/O completion.

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