For small files, there shouldn't be much of a difference reading line by line
or readling all the lines in a single sweep. Ruby IO handles the buffering 
for you. 

If you are really concerned about performance, why not do some
benchmarking? 
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.2/libdoc/benchmark/rdoc/Benchmark.html

-Jingjing


-----Original Message-----
From: Noé Alejandro [mailto:casanejo / gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 9:38 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: The fastest way to read files

Sequentially... The point is that I need to process each pair of files, 
so I don't know which of the different ways that Ruby has to read files 
is the fastest.

Thank you.

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