"Mathieu Bouchard" <matju / sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.3.96.1010325184819.19397D-100000 / relayer...
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Daniel Berger wrote:
> > > j,i = i,[0,i-4096].max
> > > f.reverse_each {|x| print x }
> > Worked like a charm.  I don't know ruby well enough yet to completely
> > understand this code (the codeblock & proc.call are throwing me at the
> > moment) but I take it that you're reading in a max. of 4k per line.
> > Is that correct?
>
> Well, I'm reading a max of 4k at a time; there is no limit on the length
> of a line; the buffer grows bigger until the program knows that it has a
> full line.

Ah, I see.  Thanks.

>
> For very, very long lines, though, the program will become slower. I think
> that replacing i-4096 by i-4096-buf.length can do some good, but it also
> can do some bad and i don't know how the two would balance. There are of
> course a lot of other possible improvements.
>
> matju
>

By all means, add them.  What would it take to propose an addition to the
API?  Since reading log files is a very common activity, I think it would be
welcome.

Thanks again.

Dan