From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-03-01T23:19:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Rio: which is the slow one?

On Feb 28, 2006, at 7:59 PM, Oliver Cromm wrote:

> The speed difference looks too extreme too me:
>
>
>   caps = []
>   File.open('caps_u8.dic').each {|line| caps << line.split(';')[0]}
>
> => 1.8 seconds

Here you are rolling your own split.

>   require 'rio'
>   caps = rio('caps_u8.dic').csv(";").columns(0)[].flatten
>   p caps
>
> => 50.9 seconds

And here Rio is using CSV, which is known to be plenty slow.  If we  
could get Rio patched to use FasterCSV when it is available, that  
would help quite a bit...

James Edward Gray II