From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-09-19T23:41:29+09:00
Subject: Re: exerb problem

Hi,

At Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:51:25 +0900,
coma_killen@fastmail.fm wrote:
> However, after extending the script somewhat I now get
> "Segmentation faults" at various locations in the script.

Hmmm, I don't know about detail of exerb and PE format, so
reported to exerb developers ML.

> Why does it take longer time to read large files (in blocks
> of 2**18 bytes) when in binary mode (opened with "rb") as 
> compared to normal mode (opened with "r")?

It's known problem, IO in 1.6 is slow and mswin32 version is
more, however, I don't remember about open mode.

IO#sysread may help you.

-- 
Nobu Nakada