Modula2's godawful IO.

[Michael I. Bushnell]

In article <730 at mhuxm.UUCP> gak at mhuxm.UUCP (Vincent Hatem) writes:

>Besides, the whole idea of the WriteCard()-style I/O system is to remove the
>20K overhead that printf() adds to programs. 95% of the functionality of 
>printf() is never used, and you're just making your text segment larger.

On 4.3 BSD on a Vax, I get the following:

% size doprnt.o
text	data	bss	dec	hex
2196	36	0	2232	8b8

% size printf.o
text	data	bss	dec	hex
40	36	0	76	4c

To use printf, it ups your text segment by a whole 2236 bytes.  Wow.
It also isn't too slow: 4.3BSD doprnt is coded in assembly language
and manages to be quite fast.  Puts is about 10% of that (200 bytes)
but isn't really any faster.  But CERTAINLY NOT a "20K" overhead.  Go
ahead and use printf.  It doesn't really cost you that much.



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