Using record I/O functions instead of stream I/O functions can greatly improve I/O performance. Instead of accessing one byte at a time, record I/O functions access one record at a time.
The two types of record I/O supported by the ILE C/C++ run-time libraries are ISO C record I/O and ILE C record I/O.
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