Hi, At Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:47:37 +0900, Clifford Heath wrote: > Ok, folk, time to try again. It's nothing to do with SHA-1. > I deleted the SHA-1 update from the code so it's the same > as "cat file >/dev/null", and it takes *ages*: (snip) > I gotta say folk, this is going to make it *very* hard to convince others > here to use ruby, and that's a shame... *30* times slower than Perl?!! > Code available on request. What version do you use? Read is slow in 1.6, but improved in 1.7. -- Nobu Nakada