[Courses] C Programming For Absolute Beginners, Lesson 4: Getting Looped

[Christopher Howard]

On 03/06/2012 11:12 AM, Leslie wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 18:34 -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> 
> printf ("\n\n");
> printf ("       *******************************************\n");
> printf ("       *                                         *\n");
> printf ("       *         Two-column Table                *\n");
> printf ("       *             by Leslie                   *\n");
> printf ("       *                                         *\n");
> printf ("       *                                         *\n");
> printf ("       *******************************************\n\n");
> 
> printf(" \t\ta\t       total\n");
> printf ("       ___________________________________________\n\n");
> 
> 

Note that this is an inefficient way to output this text. Less function
calls are generally more efficient than more function calls, because the
processor has to make larger jumps in the code, move parameters, and
such like. I/O calls are especially slow. This would be better:

code:
----------
  puts ("\n\n"
	"       *******************************************\n"
	"       *                                         *\n"
	"       *         Two-column Table                *\n"
	"       *             by Leslie                   *\n"
	"       *                                         *\n"
	"       *                                         *\n"
	"       *******************************************\n\n"
	
	" \t\ta\t       total\n"
	"       ___________________________________________\n\n"
	);
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