On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Francisco J Ballesteros <n...@lsub.org> wrote: > I mostly agree, but, if you read one char at a time it's likely you'll > become quite > slow, in general.
Absolutely right. It's very application dependent. But for an httpd, I doubt that this slowness would matter. Anyway, I think Sam has something to work on, namely, try several things out and let us know what he ends up liking best :-) ron