FRIGN,
Quoth FRIGN on Sat, Jun 06 2015 22:19 +0200:
I have to admit, that it's not easy to decide which one is better.
On the one hand, I favor good data structures and having the
length at hand is a good thing.
On the other hand, join is completed feature-wise, so why not
just store the length on the heap locally in the function and be
done with it?
The original is probably better, especially since the patched version
doesn't seem to be quicker. The length is only needed for that
fwrite() call, anyway; it seems best to keep single-purpose values
out of a heavily-used data structure.
Patch withdrawn! I'm sorry if it was a waste of time. I appreciate
your opinions on this.
--
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
