Re: [Nmh-workers] m_getfld

[markus schnalke]

[2012-12-09 18:59] Ken Hornstein <address@hidden>
> >Yes, but by "different purposes" I was thinking how scan
> >digs back into the IO buffers.  Though maybe that won't
> >be necessary any more.
> 
> I had forgotten about that.  Okay, looking at that now .... alright,
> that's not as nasty as I thought.  All it does is to use the output
> stdio buffer as the input buffer for m_getfld() so we can avoid an extra
> copy.  Can we all agree that's not necessary anymore, and the resulting
> performance gain is probably miniscule?  If so, I can simply get rid of
> that garbage now.

Just one word about performance:

I've removed the ``dig into internal IO buffers'' stuff in March and
noticed no performance loss. See
http://git.marmaro.de/?p=mmh;a=commitdiff;h=d7b4f0034bc4f5b5c2f990d0984858e9b6f4131a


meillo