From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-04-04T01:04:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question:read file speed

Dan Sugalski wrote:
> 
<snip>
> Be aware that perl cheats unmercifully at IO, to the extent of
> peeking beneath the C IO library hood and acting directly on the
> underlying buffer structure. While somewhat evil (okay, it's very
> evil) it does cut out at least one level of function calls for IO,
> and speeds things up some.
> --
>                                          Dan

This must be the vaunted Perl IO layer that I've seen mentioned from
time to time.  Any reason Ruby couldn't "cheat" as well?  Anything Ruby
can borrow here?

Dan

-- 
a = [74, 117, 115, 116, 32, 65, 110, 111, 116, 104, 101, 114, 32, 82]
a.push(117,98, 121, 32, 72, 97, 99, 107, 101, 114)
puts a.pack("C*")