From: "Maurício" <briqueabraque@...>
Date: 2002-08-03T04:03:14+09:00
Subject: Re: IO.readlines is slow ?


>>     (...)openning a 4Mb file takes between half
>> a minute and 40 seconds using File.read
>> (not File.readline).

>This is a file on your local disk?
>(...)

    Yes. EMACS takes less than 2 seconds to open it.