Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!zougas
From: zougas@me.utoronto.ca ("Athanasios(Tom) Zougas")
Subject: Re: binary data files
Message-ID: <89Apr30.140219edt.18480@me.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: zougas@hammer.me.UUCP (Athanasios(Tom) Zougas)
Organization: University of Toronto Mechanical Engineering
References: <10946@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <12546@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 89 14:02:07 EDT

In article <12546@ut-emx.UUCP> nather@ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
>.... Believe me, ascii is better:
>    ...
>Bad things [WRT ascii data file]:
>
>1. Files take a bit longer to read in
               ^^^^^
Have you ever tried reading/writing a 1,000,000 real numbers using
ascii instead of binary? I changed an engineering analysis program
from being intolerably SSSLLLOOOWWW to exceedingly fast by using
binary data files instead of ascii. My boss was happy :-)

Tom.

p.s. This was on a microcomputer, name witheld to protect my
innocence.

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