From: ts Date: 2003-04-04T19:33:50+09:00 Subject: Re: Newbie question:read file speed >>>>> "G" == Gavin Sinclair writes: G> But surely, for the operations that matter to Ruby (say "read" and G> "write"), the overhead of *calling* C's IO library must be - what - G> 1E-9 seconds? See [ruby-talk:68546] Guy Decoux