On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 04:04:32PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
It probably doesn't matter, since this function
is unlikely to be applied in an inner loop or to very long
strings with lots of leading and trailing blanks, but...
You could write this function so that it reads the input string
only once, rather than 2 or 3 times.
Thanks -- I've made some adjustments to this function. Speedwise it's
not hugely important when you consider that we immediately dispatch
the strings over an RPC-encoded loopback network socket.
Rich.
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