From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:05:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailsplit and mailinfo: gracefully handle NUL characters
Message-ID: <861w42wdh6.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130805160703r27a55b91xbad03eb1d107a176@mail.gmail.com>

"Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Is getc an option?

-- 
David Kastrup