1. Re: getc( ) and gets( ) speed (was: fast bit rotation)
Tommy wrote:
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> Another thing that was discussed a while ago was the performance of getc
> versus gets.
I splitted my reply to your post into 2 parts, and renamed the subject
of this part to the subject of that previous discussion. 
> The conclusion was that gets is a lot faster, because it
> needs a lot less calls to read lots of data. I looked in the Euphoria
> docs and libraries and I found the function get_bytes, that could read a
> bunch of bytes. However the performance of get_bytes is not even close
> to what gets does.
When I realized that some time ago, I was very surprised. I had thought
that reading just a number of plain bytes from a file should be _faster_
then reading lines, because this needs some=B4interpretation.
> Robert, couldn't you consider making get_bytes a
> low-level, builtin routine to dramatically improve its performance? I
> think get_bytes is a really standard routine that is probably quite
> frequently used.
I would appreciate that _very_ much.
Regards,
Juergen
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