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From: stevel@haddock.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Speed of read vs. fread
Message-ID: <320@haddock.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 23:56:17 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 22 23:56:17 1985
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Nf-From: haddock!stevel    Jan 22 15:48:00 1985


> SIZE NAME        COMMENT
> 6144 fgetputc    using fgetc and fputc with stdio
> 7168 freadwrite  using fread and fwrite BUFSIZ blocks with stdio
> 6144 getputc     using getc and putc (macros) with stdio
> 5120 readwrite   using read and write BUFSIZ blocks (no stdio)

If you read/write in increments of other than BUFSIZ you will
notice fread/fwrite should be faster. Try read/write in increments
of 1 char.

Steve Ludlum, decvax!yale-co!ima!stevel, {amd|ihnp4!cbosgd}!ima!stevel