[DGD] Re: status

[Robert Forshaw]

>Why do you assume sscanf() is a 'rather expensive function' when it's
>implemented in C whereas your own code runs in interpreted LPC?

I did a little test and you are indeed right.

First I did 1 million sscanf operations on a string, seeking out '#'. It 
took 2.1730 seconds.

Then I did the equivilent operation on the same string using 
seek_and_return_string(), 1 million times.

It took 40.673 seconds.

It would seem I was 1871% wrong. ;)

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