Fastest way to store ints and floats on disk

[Aahz]

In article <87bq03izvu.fsf at rudin.co.uk>,
Paul Rudin  <paul.nospam at rudin.co.uk> wrote:
>Laszlo Nagy <gandalf at shopzeus.com> writes:
>>
>> Permature optimalization is the root of all evil. (Who said that?) 
>
>Knuth I think. 

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare (often misattributed to Knuth, who was himself quoting Hoare)

"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time:
premature optimization is the root of all evil."  --Knuth restates Hoare
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