"Avery Pennarun" [off-list ref] writes:
On 5/16/08, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
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?
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David Kastrup