From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T07:51:30+09:00
Subject: Re: very slow IO (STDIN.gets and puts) on Linux, ruby 1.8.2_pre3

MiG wrote:

>test.rb:
>#!/usr/bin/ruby
>while gets
>end
>
>$ time ./test.rb < data.dat
>./test.rb < data.dat  11,51s user 0,31s system 86% cpu 13,598 total
>
>
>  
>
Well, Ruby assigns the line string to $_, if you use gets that way. So 
Ruby has to construct an object for every line. Perhaps PHP doesn't do that?

-- 
Florian Frank