Am Mon, 2002-12-02 um 13.57 schrieb David Laight:
It is as if the code from your program is executing far slower than anything from libc!
That is very well possible if he has the right libc. Take a look at the optimizations in the string functions in glibc, and you'll have an idea why. Unless you are a assembler programming Guru for a certain architecture, you'll have a hard time beating them.
Martin