James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Roland Mainz writes:
> > James Carlson wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > As for strMANYcat, the operation seems sort of obvious and somewhat
> > > useful, but I wonder how often in real, well-written code this
> > > situation actually comes up _and_ snprintf isn't a better answer.
> >
> > Umpf. See my original posting. My intention was to improve performance
> > and usuability. |snprintf()| would make it slower. MUCH slower.
>
> I don't believe it makes any noticable difference for any plausible
> usage model.
If you believe that sprintf() is no performance bottleneck, then I recommend
you to compare the speed of a recent star with GNU tar or star from September
2001 (e.g. a vanilla star-1.4) when in POSIX.1-2001 extension mode.
Jörg
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