Re: gnuplot slow on BIG files

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:

> So I submit to you a patch (against the v. 4.0 gnuplot) for the file 
> src/datafile.c as a proof of concept, that the current parser is slow 
> and can be improved. And you 'll see that this version is faster more 
> than 10 times. Please forgive any silly programming mistakes, I'm not 
> much experienced in C.

Please *explain* why the patch is faster.  Those listening will understand. 
Also, when running diff be sure to use unified (-u) so that it indicates what 
file the hunks come from.

Dan