Subject: Re: [[email-masked]: Cygwin-1.5.5 sscanf on floats: 20 times slower than 2 years ago]
From: Wayne Hayes <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:05:43 -0500

>Since scanf and the floating point arithmetic is implemented in newlib,
>I've redirected this message there.  Does anybody have an idea, what
>could slow down float scanning in sscanf by a factor of 20?

Thanks!  Just to be pedentic, I realized that it's worse than a factor of 20.
My *entire simulation* slows down by a factor of 20; there's significant
other computation in it.  So the scanf slowdown is probably closer to
hundreds of times.  *Something* fishy must be going on.  :-)

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