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Hello,

> I timed the attached program on a number of platforms to compare the
> relative performance of their system library versions of atoi() and
> sprintf(str,"%d",i) against a hand-coded C version.  In most cases, it
> was easy to beat the system library-- perhaps losing some generality,
> but I'm surprised how much better the simple hand-coded C version does
> on some platforms.  This generality shouldn't cost you more than a
> factor of 2, should it?

You didn't mention how you measured the performance. You didn't
mention wether all the executables were linked statically. Maybe
the time spent in the dynamic linkage process was included in 
some measurements ?

Axel

PS: if this is being sent twice, blame Netscape

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