: I don't like reada...it adds complexity and is another problem
: porting code...
: I'm doing sequential reads, I may as well get more into the
: buffer cache...
What if you are doing
loop {
seek(random_offset());
read(buf);
work();
}
Wouldn't it be nice if you could rewrite that as
seek(random_offset());
loop {
read(buf);
seek(random_offset());
reada(buf);
work();
}
?
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