At 22:04 09-08-2001 +0800, Andrew Francis wrote:
>Win32 has it's own native file routines - CreateFile, WriteFile, etc.. the
>stdio functions are just implemented by the standard C library you happen
>to link against.

It is more efficient to use CreateFile and WriteFile, etc under Win32.

>Win16 used to provide <io.h> style I/O routines (open, close etc..)
>and these functions are still available to me in Visual C++ - I'm not sure
>whether they're implemented by the C library or in the actual Win32
>system, though. In either case, I suspect they would also be a thin
>wrapper around the CreateFile-style functions.

These routines are implemented in the MS VC Runtime library. cURL does not
do that much file I/O for this to affect performance. I don't have any
benchmarks btw.

Regards,
-sm

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