Hi Lex,

This matters when a lot of small strings are being converted, e.g. individual lines of a large text file.

Sounds like a job for TextFile to me:

Benchmark 1: file := TextFile readOnlyFileNamed: Smalltalk changesName. time := [[file atEnd] whileFalse:[file nextLine]] timeToRun. file close.

StandardFileStream: 23,504 msecs CrLfFileStream: 180,138 msecs TextFile: 7,649 msecs

Benchmark 2: file := TextFile readOnlyFileNamed: Smalltalk changesName. MessageTally spyOn:[[file atEnd] whileFalse:[file nextChunk]]. file close.

StandardFileStream: 142,486 msecs CrLfFileStream: 175,300 msecs TextFile: 32,753 msecs

Cheers, - Andreas

-----Original Message----- From: squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Lex Spoon Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:10 AM To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: [ENH] lineEndingsTweak-ls

from preamble:

"Change Set: lineEndingsTweak-ls Date: 21 September 2003 Author: Lex Spoon

Stupid tweak for withSqueakLineEndings. Information from a class variable was being recomputed every time the method runs. This matters when a lot of small strings are being converted, e.g. individual lines of a large text file. "!