Hi,

At Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:24:33 +0900,
Ned Konz wrote:
> > I really like the convenience of doing:
> >
> > arr = IO.readlines("test1.txt")
> >
> > and then using [arr] to massage my data.
> >
> > But, when "test1.txt" is a big file (say 4MB) it takes for ever to
> > read the file.
> 
> On my machine it takes 0.1 seconds or so to read a 4Mb file made
> up of 128 byte lines.

It would depend on the version.

> In fact, it's faster than Perl:

Hmmm, Perl has got slower in 5.x?

-- 
Nobu Nakada