Towards a One True Printf

[Peter Pentchev]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:00:21PM -0700, mdf at FreeBSD.org wrote:
[snip]
> With changes in hand, I wrote a small user-space utility to benchmark
> the existing fprintf and sprintf versus the new one.  Note that the
> my_fprintf() function essentially borrows from the guts of
> printfcommon.h.  This
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mdf/printf_test.c
> 
> The numbers I get I found rather interesting (also, I appear to be
> incompetent at calculating standard deviations; I'm sure someone will
> correct my code).

Just a side note, but... have you tried outputting the raw numbers and
feeding them to ministat(1)? :)

G'luck,
Peter

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