On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 01:25:00PM +0100, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
> just some thoughts...
>
>
> fgetc will definitely be much faster than fread 16K and fseek back to the end
> of line position.
>
> Note: fgetc is already buffered and not too slow on average, but only if you
> do not
> fseek around. In that case the buffered file-stream data is lost.
fgetc (unless you are talking about fgetc_unlocked which is somewhat better)
is actually very expensive. Of course, fseek is highly undersirable, but
I've already said that.
Jakub
