From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Lisp io performance. Date: 1999/01/19 Message-ID: <3125710785735190@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 434292714 References: <7810mk$1ik$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * 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 -- SIGTHTBABW: a signal sent from Unix to its programmers at random intervals to make them remember that There Has To Be A Better Way.