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<P>>From: David Lloyd </P>
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<P>>Incidentally, I'm a little confused what you mean by "direct C". </P>
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<P>Well, I was confused too when i faced the question due to lack of context, but then the context in the interview changed some thing like this... a program using standard library functions or a program using unix system calls... Say for example, we want to split a file into n equal files... now which one will be faster... a program using standard library functions or the one using unix system calls... this is all the data i was given.</P>
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<P>Thanx,</P>
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<P>Sasi.</P>
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