Mick.Deans@p482.f300.n202.z2.fidonet.org (Mick Deans) (05/24/90)
> As C does not differentiate between text I/O and binary I/O, > you may use whichever is fastest in your Modula-2 Who says 'C' doesn't differentiate between text and binary I/O? I ran your code on 3 different compilers, and all showed a 15% differentiation between files opened i binary mode and files opened i text mode. fopen("tempfile", "rb"); fopen("tempfile","rt"); At any rate, if I were interested i fast I/O, I'd be using (the standard library funtions) write()/read() for block I/O, instead of single character I/O. BTW, I agree with you that there should be no need for declaring variables as registers (if your disagree with your compiler; splice in some assembler). But, it's a fact that by tweeking my code a bit (with out using assembler or register decl.) I managed to halv the time taken to write and read a 300,000 character file (with single character I/O in binary mode), i.e from 21 seconds to 10 seconds (on a 386 PC with a 14.9 ms drive) Different jobs, different tools. 'C's strength is it's speed and portability, M2 has Pascal's readability and ease of maintence. /Deans -- uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!2!202!300.482!Mick.Deans Internet: Mick.Deans@p482.f300.n202.z2.fidonet.org