Re: [FWP] beauty vs. brains

[Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>]

On Mar 15, Dave W. Smith said:

>>   $file = do { local $/, <FILE> };
>>   read(FILE, $file, -s FILE);
>
>Perl's sysread() uses a single kernel read(), at least on FreeBSD.

I was pondering the use of sysread(), but I didn't do any benchmarks.

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