Hello Rob,
Here's a patch to your bunzip-3.c file. Nice work btw.
One minor bug fix... checking for error return when read()ing.
Some size/performance optimizations as well. One instance of
memset() seems unnecssary. You might want to take a look.
Anyway, on my machine, decompressing linux-2.6.0-test7.tar.bz2
to /dev/null gave the following times:
bunzip-3.c bzcat (system) bunzip-3.c (patched)
real 0m24.420s 0m22.725s 0m20.701s
user 0m23.930s 0m22.170s 0m20.180s
sys 0m0.070s 0m0.080s 0m0.140s
Size of the patched version is comparable (slightly larger or
smaller depending on compiler flags).
Manuel
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