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From: mike@maj... mike@maj...
Subject: sfio vs bio
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 13:20:25 -0400

>Sfio has more facilities, e.g. you can define error handlers for
>streams, and can make use of operating system facilities like memory
>mapped files.

Sfio is also 7000 (10000 if you count stdio compatibility) lines of
code, whereas bio is about 700.  Sfio is not 10 times faster or 10
times more useful.  You're comparing apples to kumquats.