In message <mailman.778.1289325458.2218.python-l...@python.org>, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Your two 'nitpicks' about fflush have both come up on this list as real > issues causing people problems. Cache on disk drives is a bug, not a feature. Performance-wise, it’s fast RAM hobbled by being located on the wrong side of a connection to the CPU that isn’t designed to transfer data at RAM speeds. And of course correctness-wise, it’s another complication in implementing the semantics of OS operations that are supposed to guarantee that data has been saved to persistent storage. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
