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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
	Tommy Thorn <tommy-git@thorn.ws>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailsplit and mailinfo: gracefully handle NUL characters
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 11:18:17 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805171117010.30431@racer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080517100726.GA24416@cuci.nl>

Hi,

On Sat, 17 May 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >On Fri, 16 May 2008, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> >> fread is about 18x faster than fgetc().  getc() is the same speed as
> >> fgetc().  getc_unlocked() is definitely faster than getc, but still at
> >> least 7x slower than fread().
> 
> >Well, my question was more about fgetc() vs fgets().
> >If you feel like it, you might benchmark this patch:
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to improve the implementation of getc()
> in glibc instead?

Sure, because glibc is used on Windows, AIX, Solaris, etc.

> getc() is meant to be the fast version of fgetc(), and if it isn't 
> (anymore), then the library needs fixing.

fgetc() has to work reliably in a threaded environment, too.  So I guess 
that it does all kinds of locks that slow it down, but it is not something 
to be "fixed".

Hth,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-17 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-15  7:27 git bug: rebase fatal failure Tommy Thorn
2008-05-16 10:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-16 11:01   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-16 13:03     ` [PATCH] mailsplit and mailinfo: gracefully handle NUL characters Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-16 14:03       ` Avery Pennarun
2008-05-16 14:05         ` David Kastrup
2008-05-16 14:32         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-16 14:56           ` Avery Pennarun
2008-05-16 23:59             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-17  0:06               ` Tommy Thorn
2008-05-17  0:26                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-17 10:07               ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-05-17 10:18                 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
     [not found]       ` <200805161539.29259.brian.foster@innova-card.com>
2008-05-16 14:07         ` Brian Foster
2008-05-16 14:14           ` David Kastrup
2008-05-16 14:29           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-16 14:33             ` David Kastrup
2008-05-21 18:08       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-22 10:38         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-22 17:44           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-23 11:21             ` Johannes Schindelin

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