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From: erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Super-C: Why so slow???
Keywords: printf() is slower than BASIC!
Message-ID: <343@khijol.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 18:14:44 GMT
References: <46@ka2qhd.UUCP>
Reply-To: erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp)
Organization: Deadly Force, Inc., aka Clint Eastwood School of Diplomacy
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In article <46@ka2qhd.UUCP> kd2bd@ka2qhd.UUCP (John Magliacane) writes:
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>printf() function is WAY TOO SLOW! BASIC is much faster with screen I/O.
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>I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this, and if so, if they were able
>to "speed things up a bit".  The real advantage of compiling is having

Try either sprintf to a string, then puts, or you can always do the old
conversion stuff, then strcat to your output string, then puts'ing it.