Right now I am using fread() to read a file, but in other language fread() is inefficient i’v been told. Is this the same in C? If so, how would faster file reading be done?
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Right now I am using fread() to read a file, but in other language fread() is inefficient i’v been told. Is this the same in C? If so, how would faster file reading be done?
If you are willing to go beyond the C spec into OS specific code, memory mapping is generally considered the most efficient way.
For Posix, check out
mmapand for Windows check outOpenFileMapping