Re: gnuplot slow on BIG files

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 09 June 2005 09:12 am, Robert Hart wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 21:18 +0800, Hans-Bernhard Br=C3=B6ker wrote:
> >=20
> > Well, here's an ancient comment right taken directly from datafile.c:
> >=20
> >   /* cannot trust strtod - eg strtod("-",&p) */

I cannot make any sense of that comment either. ANSI says, in regard
to scanf with %f
   "The format of the token should be that expected by the function
    strtod for a floating-point number that uses decimal notation".
So there doesn't seem to be much room for scanf and strtod to parse
numbers differently.

=2D-=20
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