speed comparison between fgetc/fputc and fread/fwrite in C

Question

So(just for fun), i was just trying to write a C code to copy a file. I read around and it seems that all the functions to read from a stream call fgetc() (I ho

Answer 1

fread() is not calling fgetc() to read each byte.

It behaves as if calling fgetc() repeatedly, but it has direct access to the buffer that fgetc() reads from so it can directly copy a larger quantity of data.