[Bioperl-l] flushing i/o with TreeIO

[Ewan Birney]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Aaron J Mackey wrote:

> 
> 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 ...

I'm happy with this. If noone shouts... go for it.




> 
> -Aaron
> 
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>  Aaron J Mackey
>  Pearson Laboratory
>  University of Virginia
>  (434) 924-2821
>  amackey@virginia.edu
> 
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