From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...>
Date: 2010-02-10T06:09:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:28138] Re: [Bug #2722] gets on a large file takes a 	very very long time

> |This problem occurs on 1.8.6, 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 (all the versions I tested)
>
> I could reproduce the problem on 1.9, but not on 1.8. �1.9 has been
> fixed by r26622. �Thank you for the report.

Hmm.

For me it performs fast when I replace .gets with .read

Perhaps there is a reason for this?

with ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-02-10 trunk 26629) [i386-mingw32]

 gets:   9.2s
 read:   0.3s

with 1.8.6

 gets: 18s
 read: 0.3s

Thanks.
-r