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

> On 5/16/08, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> 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.