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Re: $100 Contest Question

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Mar 03, 2002
• 461 views

On 4 Mar 2002, at 13:51, Derek Parnell wrote:

> 
> 4/03/2002 1:09:21 PM, Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> wrote:
> 
> >
> >On 3 Mar 2002, at 20:55, euman at bellsouth.net wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> Kat did you try my posted routine yet?
> >
> >No, was i supposed to? I did try code Derek posted 3days ago, it ran 10x to
> >20x
> >slower on my computer than on his.
> >
> 
> Kat,
> the purpose of that post was to see if it would run faster on your machine
> than
> the code you were currently using, not to see if your machine was slower than
> mine or not. By the sounds of it, the code I posted (using getc() rather than
> get()) is heaps faster for you. 

You'd think so, but code Jiri posted last month ran *much slower* using 
getc() than gets() or get(). 

Kat