[Bioperl-l] flushing i/o with TreeIO

[Aaron J Mackey]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Ewan Birney wrote:

> We could call flush at the end of every sequence write

That's what I meant - not close nor autoflush.  Just a simple $fh->flush.

> ... as a flag which you can switch off if you want better performance.

Sure, the default is to flush, optionally not to flush ... right?

> But basically I agree with Jason - the caller has to be responsible
> for closing the stream to guarentee file semantics...

Then $seqIOout->close() should always do the trick; let's not force people
to jump through our internal hoops with $seqIOout->fh->close.

I'd be happy to institute these changes, once I hear a consensus ...

-Aaron

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