From: Johan Holmberg <holmberg@...>
Date: 2001-12-07T17:04:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27791] Re: File IO very slow on Windows ("i586-mswin32")


On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, U.Nakamura wrote:
>
> On Dec.07,2001 03:48:40, <holmberg@iar.se> wrote:
> | Ruby built natively for Win32 is very slow when reading large files.
> | I use 1.6.5 built on "i586-mswin32". Recently I had a little program
> | essentially containing just a loop like
> (snip)
> | Is this an already known fact ?
> | Is anything being done to fix it ?
>
> We've already known this fact, and fixed it on Ruby 1.7.
>

Good to know that it has been taken care of.
The 1.6.5 behaviour was a real "show-stopper" for me.

I just downloaded the 1.7 snapshot, so now I can continue
to use Ruby :-)

Thanks,

Johan Holmberg