From: Clifford Heath <cjh_nospam@...>
Date: 2002-06-20T16:27:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is I/O slow?

Dave Thomas wrote:
>    print $stdin.read

Thanks Dave. Hopefully someone will profile the code and find some
simple problem... though perhaps not with a simple fix.  While I'm
here the above reads the whole file into memory then spits it out,
which though simple might not be preferable :-). That's why I used
a fixed size 8K block (in my OP and in my cat.rb). It seems to be
about the same speed as yours (though faster than repeated readline).

--
Clifford Heath