From: "Duan, Jingjing" Date: 2011-11-10T02:23:51+09:00 Subject: Re: The faster way to read files What are you going to do with the files? Do you need to read all the data before start processing them? Or you can do it sequentially? Can you do it in a distributed way? It really depends. -Jingjing -----Original Message----- From: NoƩ Alejandro [mailto:casanejo@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 8:57 AM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: The faster way to read files Does anybody know which is the fastest way to read a file? Lets say there are 1, 000, 000 files with sizes not exceeding 10 kb. Thanks in advance. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.