"Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 5/16/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: >> BTW I do not know how much fgetc() instead of fgets() slows >> down things, but I expect both to be equally fast because >> they are both buffered, right? > > In my experience, fgetc() is pretty fantastically slow because you > have a function call for every byte (and, I gather, modern libc does > thread locking for every fgetc). It's usually much faster to fread() > into a buffer and then access the buffer. I don't know if that's > appropriate (or matters) here, though. Is getc an option? -- David Kastrup -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
