sizeof isn't a function anyway. It's a unary operator evaluated at compile time. Replacing all of the calls to sizeof with a variable will in fact slow the program down, since it has to dig the value out of memory every time it's used, instead of having a constant.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris "Winston" Litchfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:23 PM Subject: Simple Performance Speedup. > Tip of the day. > > fread_string and other fread_* functions are used a lot. It would make > sense that they be as fast as possible....... it is why they are using HASH > tables for string combining... > > So.. a tip of the day. > > in db.c at the top make a variable called "charptrsize" an int. > in boot_db do: > charptrsize = sizeof(char *); > > Now you are ready.. in fread_string and other fread_functions that use > sizeof(char *) ALL OVER THE PLACE just replace it with charptrsize. > > Instant SPEEDup. Remember each unneeded function call adds a slight bit > slowdown. > > Chris "Winston" Litchfield
