On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 01:25:00PM +0100, Bernd Edlinger wrote: > just some thoughts... > > > fgetc will definitely be much faster than fread 16K and fseek back to the end > of line position. > > Note: fgetc is already buffered and not too slow on average, but only if you > do not > fseek around. In that case the buffered file-stream data is lost.
fgetc (unless you are talking about fgetc_unlocked which is somewhat better) is actually very expensive. Of course, fseek is highly undersirable, but I've already said that. Jakub