Hi, On Fri, 16 May 2008, Avery Pennarun wrote: > 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. Hmpf. I hoped to get more definitive information here. Especially given that fgetc() is nothing more than a glorified fread() into a buffer, and then access the buffer. Well, at least you kind of pointed me to the _unlocked() function family. Ciao, Dscho -- 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
