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[Jaap Karssenberg]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:28:43 +0100 Geoff Youngs wrote:
: I personally determine the maximum pattern length, read that in when
: first scanning the file and use all of that, but 32 should be fine for
: all the binary formats I can remember coming across...

In my first implementation I also used to read the maximum pattern
length, but then I came across a mimetype with a huge offset (msword if
i remember correctly) and it slowed down the process badly, my current
implementation simply seeks the right position for every pattern
(perlfunc 'seek' equivalent with C func 'fseek') and performance is up;
not sure whether it is Perl or the kernel, but on some level the data
seems to be buffered automaticly.

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