From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack@...>
Date: 2009-11-08T10:32:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:26609] Re: [Bug #1332] Reading file on Windows is 500x 	slower then with previous Ruby version

> Do you think the current transcode design is also the cause of
>
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/24839

Yep that's the one.
I suppose there are a few options...
1) fix encoding transformations so that they're faster

2) [slightly anathema] have files default to 'binary' in windows (I
would prefer this anyway, but that's another story).

3) special case this transformation "somewhere" to make it faster.
Thoughts?
-r