From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2009-03-28T11:22:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug: Ruby 1.9.1 File io on Windows is slooooow

Hi,

At Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:16:38 +0900,
Alex Fenton wrote in [ruby-talk:332264]:
> I'm pretty sure from your other message that it's using Ruby 1.9 with 
> UTF-8 encoded strings that kills performance. I get equivalent results 
> on OS X comparing 1.8.6 to 1.9.1 on common string operations like 
> String#[](a_fixnum).

Slow-read is caused by universal-newline.

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Nobu Nakada