Re: horrible disk thorughput on itanium

[Andi Kleen]

[e-mail] (Linus Torvalds) writes:
> 
> "putc()" is a standard function.  If it sucks, let's get it fixed.  And
> instead of changing bonnie, how about pinging the _real_ people who
> write sucky code?

It is easy to fix. Just do #define putc putc_unlocked
There is just a slight problem: it'll fail if your application is threaded
and wants to use the same FILE from multiple threads.

It is a common problem on all OS that eventually got threadsafe stdio. 
I bet putc sucks on Solaris too.

-Andi