strcat+strcat+strcat == baaad

[Shachar Shemesh]

Alexandre Julliard wrote:

>Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> writes:
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>Well, no, the cost is linear. It would only be quadratic if the number
>of strcat calls depended on the length of the string.
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Well - still snprintf is more efficient.

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>>It's more efficient to do:
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>>  sprintf(foo, "%s%s%s%s%s%s", bar1,bar2,bar3,bar4,bar5,bar6);
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>I seriously doubt that sprintf would be faster that a couple of
>strcats. And I don't think we need to worry about this kind of
>micro-optimizations right now...
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But there is also no reason not to welcome these submissions if someone 
already took the time to submit them.

                Shachar