Re: performance measurements across 8 platforms: atoi()/sprintf("%d")

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From: Doug Siebert
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:00

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forman@cs.washington.edu University of Washington, Computer Science & Engineering (George Forman) writes:


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Let me get this straight.  You are comparing the system library version of
i = atoi(s) and sprintf(s, "%d", i) with your hand coded versions?  OK, fine
so far -- but you don't have a sprintf, you have an itoa function.  Of course
the system library will be slower, sprintf is about 1000 times more powerful
than itoa!  If the system provided an itoa, then you could compare directly
and I'd think your complaints might have a slight bit of merit if your
versions were significantly faster.  But as it stands you are comparing
apples and oranges.  Hell, more like apples and canned hams...

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