From: Olonichev Sergei <olonichev@...>
Date: 2002-03-12T02:23:53+09:00
Subject: Re: file reading impossibly slow?

>Perhaps I am mistaken, but I read somewhere in this newsgroup that IO
>performance is improved vastly in 1.6.7. I'm using 1.6.6, and I
>agree if you say that 1.6.6 is much slower than perl in line reading.


On file of 111666 K

ruby 1.6.2 (2000-12-18) [i386-cygwin]:
31.165
223884

ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i686-cygwin]:
35.171
223884


This is the output of:

t1 = Time.now
count = 1
File.open($*[0]) { |file|
 while (!file.eof?)
  line = file.gets
  count += 1
 end
}
puts Time.now - t1
puts count