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[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Wieder wrote:
 > I'm dismayed that more attention hasn't yet been paid to improving
 > the file operations, but the speed of string operations has benefited
 > greatly from recent optimization.

I've only recently cracked my copy of "Linux System Programming" so my 
ignorance has yet to be abated; in my brief review of strace output from 
file operations nothing stands out to me as an obvious bottleneck.

What opportunities do you see for streamlining file I/O?

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