Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 06:39:36 -0800 From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: head(1) speedup Message-ID: <200111021439.fA2EdbP17494@thistle.bogs.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Nov 2001 02:23:33 CST." <20011102022333.L15052@elvis.mu.org>
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In message <20011102022333.L15052@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein cleopede: >can someone please check this out, it makes "head -n" about five >times faster. (also nukes a 'register', sorry :)) I'm curious--does using fgetln here always result in a win, or just with short lines? I'm thinking of the impact of realloc and memcpy on speed. Greg Shenaut To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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