Re: [FWP] beauty vs. brains

[Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>]

>>>>> "JP" == Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net> writes:

  JP> I've often done
  JP>   $file = do { local $/, <FILE> };

  JP> when I wish to slurp a file into a scalar.  However, I recently realized
  JP> that doing

  JP>   read(FILE, $file, -s FILE);

well, you skip all the buffered I/O, resizing of the assigned buffer,
checking for EOF, etc. it would appear to be a faster idiom and i will
steal it from you. i use a simple read_file routine a lot which returns
the file in lines or whole depending on context. i will change it to use
that and speed it up. the api stays the same of course.

uri

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