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Re: User Supplied buffer

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:47:07 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Thippeswamy, Aravind wrote:

You're obviously using the wrong mailing list. libcurl questions are most
suitable on the curl-library list! I'm cc'ing my response there.

> Ive recently started with libcurl and was trying to search for an option
> where the response data is directly copied to a user supplied buffer without
> any intermediate memcpy() .

There's no such interface, no.

> I am looking for an option where the libcurl can be told to use a user given
> buffer in the socket receive instead of any temporary buffers.

I've yet to see anyone present reasonable data that show there's a noticable
gain to be had by providing such an interface.

The little profiling I've done has rather showed that the amount of time spent
on copying data in a regular libcurl-based transfer is rather insignificant.
Of course it will depend on particular use cases and target architecture etc,
so I'm open to get proven wrong.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2011-04-25