Re: fprintf performance
Ezmeralda wrote:
Hallo,
I am using fprintf to write a very large byte-array to disk.
In order to do this, I am writing each byte with a separate
fprintf-call in a text file (text file is a hard requirement
for my application).
Unfortunately, the performance of this disk-write is very poor:
over all, I do get only ~17Mbit/s, which is not acceptable
for my purpose.
How can I speed up my application?
Use fwrite or WriteFile rather than fprintf, making sure each call is
passed a large buffer (say 16K bytes). You should format the text in the
buffer manually (avoid sprintf too!).
e.g.
int const buffer_size = 16384;
char buffer[buffer_size];
int bufferPos = 0;
for (int i = 0; i != byte_array_size; ++i)
{
char const currentByte = byte_array[i];
//format currentByte into buffer, incrementing bufferPos
//and checking whether buffer is full
//(code depends on how you were using fprintf)
if (bufferPos == buffer_size)
{
//empty buffer
fwrite(buffer, bufferPos, file);
bufferPos = 0;
}
}
if (bufferPos > 0)
{
//empty the last bit
fwrite(buffer, bufferPos, file);
}
Error checking should be added.
Tom
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