Buffered output to a file is painfully slow

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> That's what I really don't understand, why do we need to generate so
> many complex data items in order to invoke a single subroutine? The
> whole operation should be possible with a fraction of the data
> shuffling that we do currently. It's not just PMCs that we're
> creating, either. There are lots of little structures created here and
> there that aren't GCable. We need a serious overhaul of these
> mechanisms to get this right, sooner rather then later.

I was thinking about that some days ago. We have lots of little
structures, to support pmc's ATTR, for example, that have fixed size
and never are realloc'ed. A special purpose allocator can avoid lots
of calls to the mem_sys_alloc family.

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Salu2