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

[David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx>]

"Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.  I don't know if that's
> appropriate (or matters) here, though.

Is getc an option?

-- 
David Kastrup

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