On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Jerry DeLisle wrote: > The speedup is accomplished by simply skipping over spaces without calling > next_read, then backing up one character and letting the existing execution > path > proceed, preserving all the end of record code needed in next_char. > > I also remove some unneeded error checks.
Would it be enough to make them "unlikely" instead? - if (length < 0) + if (unlikely(length < 0)) Ciao! Steven
