Subject: Re: Lisp io performance.
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1999/01/19
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3125710785735190@naggum.no>

* robert_m_miles@yahoo.com
| What's the fastest way to write a copy-file routine?  It seems like
| there's no way to do block reads and writes...

  there is.  READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE.  apply it to vectors of some
  reasonable machine size (8192 is frequently large enough to hold at least
  one complete disk block) having an element-type of either CHARACTER or
  (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8), and make the streams match that type.

#:Erik
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