Re: gnuplot slow on BIG files

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Thursday 09 June 2005 07:34 pm, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
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>>>strtod() is more portable than %n,
>>
>>Unless we have somebody verify to us that strtod() implements the same
>>ANSI standard more correctly than sscanf(), on OS-9, we don't know that=
=2E
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>=20
> ?? The point is that using strtod we don't *need* %n.
> Where does "more correctly" come into it?

We have two library functions doing essentially the same thing, both=20
specified precisely enough by C Standards for 15 years now.  We know of=20
one OS that got one of them wrong, at one point in time at least.  How=20
do we know there isn't also a platform that gets the other one just as=20
wrong? The answer is, we don't.

> Not that it's a big deal, since the code currently has no provision
> for reported over- or under- flow.

It has (weak) provision for inf and NaN, though, elsewhere.