Hi,
Stream operations in Max will be a little slower than in b3d, mainly because they are far more flexible.
The best solution is to try and write at much as possible at once - eg: instead of writing the pixels of a pixmap one at a time, write entire rows.
If you really need more speed and are only interested in reading/writing files, you might want to look at fopen_, fread_, fwrite_, fclose_ etc in the Pub.StdC module.
Stream operations in Max will be a little slower than in b3d, mainly because they are far more flexible.
The best solution is to try and write at much as possible at once - eg: instead of writing the pixels of a pixmap one at a time, write entire rows.
If you really need more speed and are only interested in reading/writing files, you might want to look at fopen_, fread_, fwrite_, fclose_ etc in the Pub.StdC module.