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Date:      Sun, 10 Sep 1995 14:20:15 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 20-40% faster wc(1)
Message-ID:  <199509101220.OAA09230@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <199509100758.RAA27567@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
References:  <199509100758.RAA27567@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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Bruce Evans writes:

>#ifdef maybe
>	/* It might be best to coalesce the space and newline tests. */
>	myctype['\n'] |= 2;
>#endif


change:
			if (ch == '\n')
				++linect;
			if (ISSPACE(ch))
				gotsp = 1;

to:
		        if (ISSPACE(ch)) {
			    gotsp = 1;
			    if (ch == '\n')
				++linect;
			}

save ~20%  user time :-))) [not a gcc bug, the algorithm was buggy]

Wolfram

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