Re: [PATCH] mailsplit and mailinfo: gracefully handle NUL characters

On 5/16/08, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] 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.

Have fun,

Avery