OpenEuphoria

Re: getc( ) and gets( ) speed

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Dec 15, 2003
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On 16 Dec 2003, at 8:44, Derek Parnell wrote:

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> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Euman" <euman at bellsouth.net>
> To: <EUforum at topica.com>
> Subject: Re: getc( ) and gets( ) speed
> 
> 
> [snip]
> > 
> > what about 13,10 (crlf) from each line ending
> > if I have 5000 lines with 201 bytes and I need
> > only 200,  I would need to bypass the crlf on each
> > line..
> > 
> > This shoot holes in the theory that using getc( )
> > is faster than gets( ) for most things.
> > 
> 
> Never heard of that theory.
> 
> But think about it, you need to call getc() for each and every character
> inside
> some form of (slow) Euphoria loop; but gets() only needs to be called for each
> line (multiple characters per time), so in many circumstances gets() will be
> faster then getc(). However, gets() only works for text files, it makes a mess
> of binary files.

Which makes even more sense to use fget() (or something like that) to grab 
the whole file from the OS into a sequence, glom the whole thing at once. 
Then if you want it broken into strings, parse() it on the line terminator. If
it's
a bitmap, blast it to the screen buffer (in pascal, i'd let dos take it from the
drive directly to the screen buffer).

Kat