From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-11-17T02:05:04+09:00
Subject: Re: *Fast* way to process large files line by line

On 16.11.2006 16:42, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> It got so big from the naive approach 
> that he started marshalling it out of core in chunks, leading to the 
> code he posted here.

Which code?  I saw only the pseudo code from the first posting.  Is 
there something that hasn't made it through the gateway again?

> In any event, it looks to me like he is trying to reinvent some network 
> monitoring wheel for which there are undoubtedly both expensive 
> commercial packages and wonderful full-featured open source tools 
> available. I wrote a lot of code like this ten years ago (in ksh, awk 
> and Perl 4) when such tools weren't available. Now they are, and there 
> are Ruby interfaces to most of them.

This makes perfectly sense to me.

Kind regards

	robert