Am Mon, 2002-12-02 um 13.57 schrieb David Laight: > It is as if the code from your program is executing far > slower than anything from libc!
That is very well possible if he has the right libc. Take a look at the optimizations in the string functions in glibc, and you'll have an idea why. Unless you are a assembler programming Guru for a certain architecture, you'll have a hard time beating them. Martin -- Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy