Re: Howto read line from a stream

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 3 Cze, 20:04, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@nospam.acm.org> wrote:

> I don't really care which one is faster. The question is whether they meet the
> timing requirements for the application.

The typical requirement is that your application must be faster then
the competition, otherwise you go out of business.
Do not assume that everybody is coding against the specification which
is given up-front. This might be true when doing contract work (ie.
responding to demand), but not when pushing a new product on the
market (ie. creating a demand).

In any case (performance aside), I find the idea of linear recursion
on each single character in the string a bit... bizarre, especially in
the context of the *externally* provided content.
The memory requirements for your version are also not easy to
establish in any intuitive way - the concatenation of return values is
probably performed on the heap and at the same time control flow
pushes down the stack. Yuck! :-)

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