From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-04-07T21:08:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question:read file speed


"ts" <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:200304071056.h37AudL09677@moulon.inra.fr...
> >>>>> "R" == Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> writes:
>
> R> Maybe because it's more portable?  If you have to rely on internals
of a
> R> lib that may change then you might be better off to memory map a file
> R> yourself and do the buffer management yourself, too.  Just guessing
since
> R> I'm no OS internals hacker.
>
>  Well, sometimes speed and portability are not compatibles.

I guess more often than not.

>  ruby and perl are evil because they use the internal buffer associated
>  with a stream, but perl is a little more evil than ruby and this is why
>  it's faster than ruby.

Warning: Introduction of relative evilness can harm your moral judgement!
:-))

    robert