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From: andrew@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: cmp
Summary: if you're screwing with cmp, why not code it right?
Message-ID: <7993@alice.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 88 11:56:26 GMT
References: <16210@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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on most implementations, cmp has two getchars (or getc's) in the inner loop.
we got a factor of five improvement by reading in blocks and using
memcmp.