From: "Stathy G. Touloumis" <stathy.touloumis@...>
Date: 2002-03-20T01:04:06+09:00
Subject: RE: file reading impossibly slow?

I was wondering if this is more a compiler issue than a platform issue.  Or
is it that the Ruby source does not take into account certain optimizations
for the MS architecture.

> I'm jumping into this thread late, so apologies if I'm repeating
> well-known
> information.
>
> I've done quite a bit of scanning large text files with Ruby and have
> observed:
>
> o  Under Linux -- fine.
> o  Under mswin32 -- *unreasonably* slow.
> o  Under cygwin -- acceptable, much better than mswin32.