From: Tomas Brixi Date: 2002-09-24T14:32:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Speed up suggestions > A little test: ruby1.7.3, blah = open('/etc/termcap-BSD', 'r').readlines > > % time ruby rb.rb > ruby rb.rb 0.40s user 0.09s system 97% cpu 0.500 total > > ps. for speed maniacs (not me;)): it's time to switch to ruby1.7.3 > > -- > [ Wojtek gminick Walczak ][ http://gminick.linuxsecurity.pl/ ] > [ gminick (at) hacker.pl ][ gminick (at) underground.org.pl/ ] I did not originally mean this thread to be for speed maniacs :-) My question was how to speedup processing large files (400-500+ MBytes) not those like /etc/termcap* It is the about minutes you save not about 0.1 sec ;-) Eventhough I thank all who help me. Tom __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com