From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-08-03T04:14:10+09:00
Subject: Re: IO.readlines is slow ?

"Maur�cio" <briqueabraque@yahoo.com> writes:

>     Just to report, I have a similar problem: on my system (Ruby 1.66,
> pragmatic programmers ruby install for Windows), openning a 4Mb file takes
> between half a minute and 40 seconds using File.read (not File.readline).

I believe this is a known problem on 1.6.6: I believe the installer
for the next version is coming along shortly.


Dave