On Sat, Feb 09, 2008, Amos Jeffries wrote: > Correction: I did have online source that were somewhat confusing but > explained the behaviour a little. This seems to be saying what I > remember, http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19980604/
Today's rant: The C standard libraries after about 1995 weren't focusing on performance. The non-"n" string library functions are pretty well optimised for NULL strings. Don't model stuff on the C standard libraries if you want anything performance critical. And don't use C standard library calls if you want anything to run fast. Case in point: argh don't use *scanf and *printf in the critical path.. You haven't done that, but thats dotted all throughout the Squid codebase and its really freaking irritating. Half the speedups in 2.6/2.7 were me going through and slowly replacing all the stdio calls in -socket- code. adrian
