<div>Thanks to all.</div>
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<div>Interesting and educational.</div>
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<div>John</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im"><br>On 14.11.2009, at 23:07, John Worden wrote:<br><br>> So are you saying that my example is slow because of the time taken to process the text data files in Squeak? (I was using 3.10)<br>><br>> Not that it matters in this case but how would I work around this if it were a real application that needed to handle data in this way?<br>
><br>> John<br><br></div>If you do, e.g.,<br><br> FileStream readOnlyFileNamed: myFileName<br><br>it creates a MultiByteFileStream nowadays (see #concreteStream). It would be nice if we could just set a no-op converter in a MultiByteFileStream. However, that class has not been optimized for speed yet, even without an expensive converter it is much slower. It reads characters one-by-one instead of block-wise, which obviously isn't speedy exactly, as you noticed.<br>
<br>Instead of the abstract FileStream use the stream class you want explicitly. StandardFileStream is the old class that does no conversion. So you would open your file like this instead:<br><br> StandardFileStream readOnlyFileNamed: myFileName<br>
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