From: Shashank Date <ADATE@...>
Date: 2002-08-03T10:35:25+09:00
Subject: Re: IO.readlines is slow ?

Thank you all for pointing me in the right direction.

I have downloaded Ruby 1.7.2 and tried out reading very big (> 200 MB)
files, and it works like a champ.

(By way of comparison, Python 2.2 ran for a while and then aborted with some
memory error and Perl 5.6 did not even load !)

Thanks again.

-- Shanko

"Shashank Date" <ADATE@kc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3jl29.3939$ua1.140046@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> I really like the convenience of doing:
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> arr = IO.readlines("test1.txt")
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> and then using [arr] to massage my data.
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> But, when "test1.txt" is a big file (say 4MB) it takes for ever to read
the
> file.
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> Is there any way to make it faster without sacrificing the terseness.
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> (Similar constructs are much faster in Python and Perl world).
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> Please help.
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> -- Shanko
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