Manuel Novoa III writes:

Manuel Novoa III writes:

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