fseek high cpu usage?

hi there:

just a quick question.

i have been working on this code which reads a file that contains information about each frame for animation (blm files). my code is controled my a GUI(slider) and then uses fseek() to locate the frame to be read. a bit like a scraching.

my questions is that, does fseek() eats a lot of cpu power? for example, i tried to cahnge the slider value continusly and the cpu power went stright up.


many many thanks

CHUN

my code looks like this:

Code:

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static void blinkenlights_goto(t_blinkenlights* x, t_float frame)
{
 //where the frame comes from the GUI range 0->1
// where x->framge_pos[] is any array which remembers the position
// if each frame in the file x->filed
 char *lineread = (char*) getbytes( BL_MAX_LENGTH );
 int current_frame = x->frame_pos[(int)(frame * (x->frame_no-1))];
 int i, n;
 
 
 if(frame < 0) post("no negtive numbers, please...");
 else
 {

 // this is the line that i think is eatting up my cpu!!!!!!
 fseek(x->x_filed, current_frame, SEEK_SET);
 
 
 for(i=0; ;i++)
 {
 
  fgets(lineread, BL_MAX_LENGTH, x->x_filed );
  if ( (lineread[0] == '\n')) break;
 
  for(n=0; n<(strlen(lineread)-1); n++)
  {
 
  if(lineread[n] == '0')blinkenlights_pixoff( x, n+1, i+1);
    else blinkenlights_pixon( x, n+1, i+1);
   
    //if(lineread[n] == '0')blinkenlights_pixoff( x, n+1, i+1);
    //else blinkenlights_pixon( x, n+1, i+1);
  }
 
 }
 
 //fseek( x->x_filed, 0L, SEEK_SET );
 }
 
 if ( lineread ) freebytes( lineread, BL_MAX_LENGTH );
}

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> char *lineread = (char*) getbytes( BL_MAX_LENGTH );
char lineread[BL_MAX_LENGTH];
Is just as good, and there's no need to free it.
There's also no need for a NULL allocation check (which you omitted).

Check out my use of RDTSC here

Calling strlen() in a loop is bad - there was a thread about that just recently.

My guess is, the performance has little to do with the actual fseek, and more to do with the fgets and pixel bashing going on.

thanks for your reaply, i will look into it and will be back later:)

cheers

CHUN