[LCP]Which one is faster - program with unix system calls or direct c code

[Bill Rausch]

At 12:16 PM -0500 7/15/01, Matthew Vanecek wrote:
>Unix system calls may be a smidge quicker wrt execution time.  However,
>they are a pain to use in many cases, and in most cases, you're not

System calls are generally slower, not faster. To perform a system 
call, a context switch has to take place for the kernel to do it's 
thing.  The standard library routines use buffering specifically to 
avoid making so many system calls.

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