From: sa 125 <s_ayalon@...>
Date: 2009-05-14T22:46:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance issues with large files -- ruby vs. python :)

> I was wondering if you have some interesting insights about that 
> meanwhile which you would like to share :).
> Thanks,
> Monika

Hi Monika,

it's been a while since I had that problem, and I ended up sticking with 
pythong for that particular issue. However, I found the reading the csv 
file with a simple file IO
>> File.open('path/to/file', 'r').each {|row| # do stuff }
is much faster than using FasterCSV. It will not be as convenient as 
fastercsv, but if speed is what you're going for it just might do.

I must add that I haven't tried ruby 1.9 yet, which is said to have a 
much faster interpreter than 1.8 - though I don't know if it's 
compatible with the fastercsv library. If you end up finding out about 
it, please let me know how it works out.

Thanks!

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