Re: Best practice for data encoding?

[Ted Faber <faber at ISI.EDU>]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:11:19PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> The problem with text is that you have to walk through memory and  
> compare characters. A LOT.

That's not where your code spends its time.

Run gprof(1).  The majority of time your code spends is spent doing the
2 integer divides per text to integer conversion and in strtoimax
(called by fscanf). 

Multiplying or dividing is the worst thing you can do on a CPU in
general.  

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