Thread: efficient binary file read

Originally Posted by Marv

Thanks for the replies

But these files are big. Reading an int at a time and making the assignment to the elements of a float array will take a lot more time than using fread to read the big block of data. Wont it?

Nope.

EDIT: Yikes. I'm contributing to the resurrection of a defunct thread. Let's just let this one die, eh?