Re: gnuplot slow on BIG files

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Robert Hart wrote:

> strtod() is indeed significantly faster than sscanf. 

And I still don't see why that should be the case...

> Can anybody come up with any cases where these two methods give
> different results/error handling?

Well, here's an ancient comment right taken directly from datafile.c:

  /* cannot trust strtod - eg strtod("-",&p) */

 > strtod is ANSI C, so should be
> portable.

So should sscanf().