Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 02:28:50 +0400 From: Dmitrij Tejblum <tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stpcpy() Message-ID: <199910302228.CAA03763@tejblum.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 23:46:55 PDT." <19991029234654.B89583@dragon.nuxi.com>
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"David O'Brien" wrote: > Why is it so useful and "improves" performance so much?? Good stpcpy() could double performance in some cases. You would touch a symbol once where you previously touched it twice. It actually may matter in some text-processing applications. > Especially in the face of portability. For a programmer, there is no reason to lose the improvement (even small one) on some platforms (such as Windows :-), since a fallback implementation of stpcpy() is trivial. Dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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